BSD file system

[Robert Krawitz]

In article <31003 at news.Think.COM>, dm at odin (Dave Mankins) writes:

]Symbolic links are just like hard links only with the ability to span
]filesystems (and, sadly, without the ability to know that, when you remove
]one name for a file (the target of the symbolic link) there is another name
]left dangling without a reference).

I find it more convenient to think of a symlink as nothing more than a
pointer to a named point in the filesystem.  A hard link (remember, each
file is really a link) is a pointer to an inode (a filesystem object),
whereas a symlink is a pointer to a name.
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