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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!]
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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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