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[Bug manual/16073] Improve the manual on symbolic links
- From: "libnoon at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:26:48 +0000
- Subject: [Bug manual/16073] Improve the manual on symbolic links
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- References: <bug-16073-131 at http dot sourceware dot org/bugzilla/>
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16073
--- Comment #3 from Fabrice Bauzac <libnoon at gmail dot com> ---
There are cases where the symlink() system call is used not for linking to
another file, but for the fact that it is a simple way of atomically writing an
arbitrary string into the filesystem. This is useful for some synchronization
use cases I have worked on. And that is why I would prefer the term "CONTENTS"
or "TARGET" rather than "FILENAME" because it can really be an arbitrary string
that will never point to an actual file.
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