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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 01:25:05 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de>
Subject:   Re: help with ln "linking" Please! [attn manpage authors!]
Message-ID:  <20021008222505.GK83241@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <200210082214.g98MEngt064064@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <zgsmzg69y1.mzg@localhost.localdomain> <200210082214.g98MEngt064064@lurza.secnetix.de>

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On 2002-10-09 00:14, Oliver Fromme <olli@secnetix.de> wrote:
> Gary W. Swearingen <swear@attbi.com> wrote:
>  > 
>  > How about this:  ln [-fhinsv] source_filename [link_filename]
> 
> FWIW, the source doesn't have to be a file at all, in the
> case of symbolic links.  I think the correct term is "link
> target" in that case -- that's how it is called in the
> standards (POSIX, SUSvX etc.).

True.  /etc/malloc.conf is a nice example of cases that this holds
true, and the 'source' doesn't have to be a real file, or exist at all
for that matter.

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