1 /* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
3 * Mini ln implementation for busybox
5 * Copyright (C) 1999-2004 by Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
7 * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
10 /* BB_AUDIT SUSv3 compliant */
11 /* BB_AUDIT GNU options missing: -d, -F, -i, and -v. */
12 /* http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/ln.html */
22 #define LN_NODEREFERENCE 4
26 int ln_main(int argc, char **argv)
28 int status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
35 int (*link_func)(const char *, const char *);
37 flag = bb_getopt_ulflags(argc, argv, "sfnbS:", &suffix);
43 last = argv[argc - 1];
46 if (argc == optind + 1) {
48 last = bb_get_last_path_component(bb_xstrdup(last));
56 (flag & LN_NODEREFERENCE) ^ LN_NODEREFERENCE,
58 src_name = bb_xstrdup(*argv);
59 src = concat_path_file(src, bb_get_last_path_component(src_name));
63 if (!(flag & LN_SYMLINK) && stat(*argv, &statbuf)) {
64 bb_perror_msg("%s", *argv);
65 status = EXIT_FAILURE;
70 if (flag & LN_BACKUP) {
72 backup = bb_xasprintf("%s%s", src, suffix);
73 if (rename(src, backup) < 0 && errno != ENOENT) {
74 bb_perror_msg("%s", src);
75 status = EXIT_FAILURE;
81 * When the source and dest are both hard links to the same
82 * inode, a rename may succeed even though nothing happened.
83 * Therefore, always unlink().
86 } else if (flag & LN_FORCE) {
91 if (flag & LN_SYMLINK) {
95 if (link_func(*argv, src) != 0) {
96 bb_perror_msg("%s", src);
97 status = EXIT_FAILURE;
102 } while ((++argv)[1]);