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[Bug manual/16073] Improve the manual on symbolic links
- From: "mtk.manpages at gmail dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 01:54:49 +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 #4 from Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages at gmail dot com> ---
(In reply to Fabrice Bauzac from comment #3)
> 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.
Fair enough. I, the man page, I made the first argument "target".
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