ln: explain why we use xstrdup

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/coreutils/ln.c b/coreutils/ln.c
index ddad120d1..6da290c11 100644
--- a/coreutils/ln.c
+++ b/coreutils/ln.c
@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@ int ln_main(int argc, char **argv)
         last = argv[argc - 1];
         argv += optind;
 
-        if (argc == optind + 1) {
+        if (!argv[1]) {
+                /* "ln PATH/TO/FILE" -> "ln PATH/TO/FILE FILE" */
                 *--argv = last;
+                /* xstrdup is needed: "ln -s PATH/TO/FILE/" is equivalent to
+                 * "ln -s PATH/TO/FILE/ FILE", not "ln -s PATH/TO/FILE FILE"
+                 */
                 last = bb_get_last_path_component_strip(xstrdup(last));
         }