[Courses] [FS] Filesystem Course lesson 2

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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