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author | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-06-03 06:27:44 +0000 |
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committer | charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org> | 1997-06-03 06:27:44 +0000 |
commit | 0213963bae0c7f931de1b1cd8d7a3bc6a10b6058 (patch) | |
tree | c8fa83477d054a7dad32f005827e7a61ac2aa40d /bin | |
parent | 0bb19f3d59acd70debf5a665b2bfc17198f69c10 (diff) | |
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Add xref to lchown(2) and symlink(2).
Obtained from: {Net|Open}BSD
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
-rw-r--r-- | bin/ln/symlink.7 | 13 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7 index 1fb4ea4..63e140d 100644 --- a/bin/ln/symlink.7 +++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7 @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" @(#)symlink.7 8.3 (Berkeley) 3/31/94 -.\" $Id$ +.\" $Id: symlink.7,v 1.4 1997/02/22 14:03:50 peter Exp $ .\" .Dd March 31, 1994 .Dt SYMLINK 7 @@ -106,9 +106,10 @@ the system call would return a file descriptor to the file .Dq afile . .Pp -There are four system calls that do not follow links, and which operate +There are five system calls that do not follow links, and which operate on the symbolic link itself. They are: +.Xr lchown 2 , .Xr lstat 2 , .Xr readlink 2 , .Xr rename 2 , @@ -136,7 +137,11 @@ The .Bx 4.4 system differs from historical 4BSD systems in that the system call .Xr chown 2 -has been changed to follow symbolic links. +has been changed to follow symbolic links. The +.Xr lchown 2 +system call was added later when the limitations of the new +.Xr chown 2 +became apparent. .Ss Commands not traversing a file tree. The second area is symbolic links, specified as command line file name arguments, to commands which are not traversing a file tree. @@ -424,9 +429,11 @@ options. .Xr pax 1 , .Xr rm 1 , .Xr tar 1 , +.Xr lchown 2 , .Xr lstat 2 , .Xr readlink 2 , .Xr rename 2 , +.Xr symlink 2 , .Xr unlink 2 , .Xr fts 3 , .Xr remove 3 , |