[Courses] [FS] Filesystem Course lesson 2
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random832 at rcbooks.org
Fri Jul 18 10:06:28 EST 2003
On Wednesday, Jul 16, 2003, at 09:17 America/Indianapolis, Sue Stones
wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:46 pm, Dan Richter wrote:
>
>>> ln interprets the pathname of the actual file/directory relative to
>>> the directory which is to contain the symbolic link.
>>
>> Yes, that's sum total of the relativity of symbolic links.
>
>
> So really it is not symbolic links that are relative, but rather the
> utility
> that creates them that behaves in a strange way.
No, it's the links... the utility just puts the whole target string you
pass to it in the symlink without interpreting it... the link doesn't
point to a file or anything, it contains a simple string.
--Random832
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