X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?a=blobdiff_plain;f=original%2Fman7%2Fsymlink.7;fp=original%2Fman7%2Fsymlink.7;h=236b88bff7ec3a469ed921fce75a5e6be967878f;hb=bf11c0c4717abfd30785b3991b933f4687bb24fc;hp=b4ca88a3222810bac8b42916f6425adff10423f0;hpb=2f03c246cb52feaffef8da333a71c2e3380b356c;p=linuxjm%2FLDP_man-pages.git diff --git a/original/man7/symlink.7 b/original/man7/symlink.7 index b4ca88a3..236b88bf 100644 --- a/original/man7/symlink.7 +++ b/original/man7/symlink.7 @@ -47,22 +47,22 @@ it is a reference to the object underlying the original filename. the same .IR "i-node number" , where an i-node number is an index into the i-node table, -which contains metadata about all files on a file system. +which contains metadata about all files on a filesystem. See .BR stat (2).) Changes to a file are independent of the name used to reference the file. Hard links may not refer to directories -(to prevent the possibility of loops within the file system tree, +(to prevent the possibility of loops within the filesystem tree, which would confuse many programs) -and may not refer to files on different file systems -(because i-node numbers are not unique across file systems). +and may not refer to files on different filesystems +(because i-node numbers are not unique across filesystems). A symbolic link is a special type of file whose contents are a string that is the pathname another file, the file to which the link refers. In other words, a symbolic link is a pointer to another name, and not to an underlying object. For this reason, symbolic links may refer to directories and may cross -file system boundaries. +filesystem boundaries. There is no requirement that the pathname referred to by a symbolic link should exist. @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ A symbolic link that refers to a pathname that does not exist is said to be a .IR "dangling link" . -Because a symbolic link and its referenced object coexist in the file system +Because a symbolic link and its referenced object coexist in the filesystem name space, confusion can arise in distinguishing between the link itself and the referenced object. On historical systems,