test(1) unexpected result (to me)
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Tue Jan 11 17:10:07 PST 2005
Sean McNeil wrote:
>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.
>
>
yes, but this leaves us with no way to check that a file and a symlink
are the same.
>Cheers,
>Sean
>
>
>
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