test(1) unexpected result (to me)

[Sean McNeil]

On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 16:41 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> # ls -l /sys
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  11 Sep  4 22:03 /sys -> usr/src/sys
> # if [ /sys -ef /usr/src/sys ]
>  > then
>  > echo same
>  > else
>  > echo no
>  > fi
> no
> 
> 
> I would have expected the result "same"
> 
> comments?

By "same file" they mean each references the same inode.  Since this is
a symlink, the files do not refer to the same file.

You can see that if it were a hard link the result would be "same"
echoed.

Cheers,
Sean

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