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author | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-16 01:57:20 +0000 |
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committer | trhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-05-16 01:57:20 +0000 |
commit | 56036d26233ff609be6306f948bdbebc57075335 (patch) | |
tree | a6535f7145cab2b794accc91e7549be9d65f90f6 /bin/ln | |
parent | 24cc1f8e45f072238cecb4ba927e38f90d1627f5 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-56036d26233ff609be6306f948bdbebc57075335.zip FreeBSD-src-56036d26233ff609be6306f948bdbebc57075335.tar.gz |
Consistancy check s/file system/filesystem/
Reviewed by: brian
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/ln')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ln/ln.1 | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ln/symlink.7 | 4 |
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/ln.1 b/bin/ln/ln.1 index d651b98..bfdce85 100644 --- a/bin/ln/ln.1 +++ b/bin/ln/ln.1 @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ links. A hard link to a file is indistinguishable from the original directory entry; any changes to a file are effectively independent of the name used to reference the file. -Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span file systems. +Hard links may not normally refer to directories and may not span filesystems. .Pp A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked. The referenced file is used when an @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ must be done to obtain information about the link. The .Xr readlink 2 call may be used to read the contents of a symbolic link. -Symbolic links may span file systems and may refer to directories. +Symbolic links may span filesystems and may refer to directories. .Pp Given one or two arguments, .Nm diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7 index 0e665eb..0d322d1 100644 --- a/bin/ln/symlink.7 +++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7 @@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ it is a reference to the object underlying the original file name. Changes to a file are independent of the name used to reference the file. Hard links may not refer to directories and may not reference files -on different file systems. +on different filesystems. A symbolic link contains the name of the file to which it is linked, i.e. it is a pointer to another name, and not to an underlying object. For this reason, symbolic links may reference directories and may span -file systems. +filesystems. .Pp Because a symbolic link and its referenced object coexist in the filesystem name space, confusion can arise in distinguishing between the link itself |