From: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1982 01:54:56 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: special case EEXIST for ln -s
X-Git-Tag: BSD-4_1c_2-Snapshot-Development~1889
X-Git-Url: https://git.subgeniuskitty.com/unix-history/.git/commitdiff_plain/56abc04a720afa39be7b228c95008b956e0c3eff

special case EEXIST for ln -s

SCCS-vsn: bin/ln/ln.c 4.4
---

diff --git a/usr/src/bin/ln/ln.c b/usr/src/bin/ln/ln.c
index 2d6df4b441..446aed25cc 100644
--- a/usr/src/bin/ln/ln.c
+++ b/usr/src/bin/ln/ln.c
@@ -1,16 +1,18 @@
-static	char sccsid[] = "@(#)ln.c 4.3 %G%";
+static	char sccsid[] = "@(#)ln.c 4.4 %G%";
 /*
  * ln
  */
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <errno.h>
 
 struct	stat stb;
 int	fflag;		/* force flag set? */
 int	sflag;
 char	name[BUFSIZ];
 char	*rindex();
+extern	int errno;
 
 main(argc, argv)
 	int argc;
@@ -75,7 +77,10 @@ linkit(from, to)
 		to = name;
 	}
 	if ((*linkf)(from, to) < 0) {
-		perror(from);
+		if (errno == EEXIST)
+			perror(to);
+		else
+			perror(from);
 		return (1);
 	}
 	return (0);