Post #2806610
2026-05-02 22:02 UTC
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org With -s I'd more compare the behavior to chmod/chown given it's non-mangled and so relative to the symlink location, you write the link target (1) into a symlink file (2).
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@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org 2026-05-02 22:04
@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me wrote: > “With -s I'd more compare the behavior [of /bin/ln -s] to chmod/chown given it's non-mangled and so relative to the symlink location, you write the link target (1) into a symlink file (2).” That's a good point. Ultimately, a symlink is not really a file in the way humans think of them. (And literally is *not* a “regular” file under #POSIX).