The 'ln -s' command

I tried the 'ln -s' command in bothe 4.3 & 4.7 in a situation where it should fail and it did, but it still had a return/exit code of 0 , I think it should have been nonzero. I tried 'ln -s a b' where the file b existed (and was a directory) and I wanted to create the file named a also pointing to it. The correct form was 'ln -s b a'.

FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001 jkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386

FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE #0: Wed Oct 9 15:08:34 GMT 2002 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386


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