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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · 1d ago

Am I the only person who, after 30 years of using /bin/ln, still gets its arguments backwards?

If I type:

$ ln -s x y

My mind is always thinking: “I want a symlink where x ⇒ y”, and as such I incorrectly put the destination before the source.

I am sure ln is this way in #POSIX to match the behavior of cp & mv. The latter two are intuitive to me because I read it as “copy/move x to y”.

$ ls -l y
lrwxrwxrwx 1 bkuhn bkuhn 1 May  2 14:39 y -> x

“y ⇒ x” … See!?!?!

#Unix

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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org · 1d ago
@shrub900@mastodon.social I'm admittedly jealous b/c you had access to a #POSIX system (& a #FOSS one too!) from your earliest computer-using time in life. I “wasted”¹ my teenage years with a Commodore 64² — writing in BASIC & 6502 assembler. I was ≈ 18 years old before I got access to a “real” computer running #Unix SYSVR3.2.3 & ported #GNU #Emacs to it. ¹ I learned useful skills, but it yielded no useful artifacts. ² Yes, @cwebber@social.coop, I *was* keeping up with #Commodore, but it was *not* keeping up with me!!
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@kkarhan@jorts.horse · Apr 25, 2026
@codewizard@hear-me.social @linux4noobs@programming.dev @linux4noobs@lemmy.world np. I think it's the best "non-partisan" explainer that doesn't expect you to read through #POSIX, #LinuxFromScratch and #LinuxStandardBase documentation and just focuses onthe "How?" "When?" and "Why?"…
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@alip@mastodon.online · Apr 05, 2026
News from #sydbox git: Starting next release, we're going to be signing binary releases with #OpenBSD signify rather than #GnuPG. To enable practical signing in #Exherbo #Gitlab CI, I wrote an #ISC licensed, pure portable #POSIX shell implementation of #OpenBSD signify. signify.sh has no external dependencies and runs with PATH=. It has unit tests embedded which may be run with --test option: https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox/-/raw/next/dev/signify.sh #exherbo #linux #security
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@Grittens@mastodon.social · Jan 07, 2026
Are there any people who are currently working on the unix 2038 problem, I have a colleague who needs info for an article. #unix #2038 #jahr2038 #posix #stack #criticalinfrastructure
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