Re: strange behaviour: sed follows symlink when reading but not when writing on -i and without --follow-symlinks

Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Il 28/06/2012 01:17, Christoph Anton Mitterer ha scritto:
> 
> Anyway,... you haven't spend words on my suggestion to change the
> default to be --follow-symlinks and replace that by a
> --no-follow-symlinks ?
> 
> Would make the behaviour more consistent... and be more what one
> expects.

Perhaps, but I think it's too late to change the default.

Paolo
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