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Re: ln -s Bug?


From: Marcus Nutzinger
Subject: Re: ln -s Bug?
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:43:25 +0100
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> Let me add that symbolic links are name translations.  The value of
> the symbolic link is the string that you use to create the symbolic
> link.

I see! This means that the utility just doesn't want e.g. to resolve the
absolute path of the symlink-target, because maybe it doesn't exist and
maybe it will never exist and will only be used as lock (as Andreas
wrote) or value holder. Now I also know why I didn't get it in the first
place! I didn't realize that the first argument can also be
non-existant. Now things are much clearer of course :) Thank you!
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