[Courses] [FS] Filesystem Course lesson 2

[Sue Stones]

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.

sue