From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30499 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2013 08:26:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 30449 invoked by uid 48); 26 Oct 2013 08:26:50 -0000 From: "libnoon at gmail dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug manual/16073] Improve the manual on symbolic links Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 08:26:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: glibc X-Bugzilla-Component: manual X-Bugzilla-Version: unspecified X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: libnoon at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: NEW X-Bugzilla-Priority: P2 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at sourceware dot org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-10/txt/msg00341.txt.bz2 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16073 --- Comment #3 from Fabrice Bauzac --- 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. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.