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Old 11-26-2013, 01:53 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
That's not actually true, a symlink in linux is just a plain text file containing the path to the actual file, with a flag in its metadata to indicate it is a symlink.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/symlink.7.html

You can read its contents, as opposed to the contents of the file it points to, with the readlink() function

http://linux.die.net/man/2/readlink
Okay, well, the actual PROGRAMMING behind it... but in terms of usability, that's what it is. The filesystem will cleverly pretend in most cases, that it IS the file.
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