(do_link): Warn that making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable.

diff --git a/src/ln.c b/src/ln.c
index 5307d67cc08bcc8990bbb9d6a267f6dd7fd46f1b..759c450b328c724ebead1ec5a218daecd022f384 100644 (file)
--- a/src/ln.c
+++ b/src/ln.c
@@ -164,6 +164,13 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest)
          return 1;
        }
 
+      if (S_ISLNK (source_stats.st_mode))
+       {
+         error (0, 0, _("%s: warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link\
+ is not portable"),
+                source);
+       }
+
       if (!hard_dir_link && S_ISDIR (source_stats.st_mode))
        {
          error (0, 0, _("%s: hard link not allowed for directory"), source);