Marcus Nutzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> could anyone please explain in
> a few sentences, why the program behaves in this way?

Because that's how the "symlink" system call behaves.  It can't easily
adjust the link to "work" in the way that you like, because it doesn't
have enough information available in general.  Consider the case, for
instance, where you type "ln -s a b/c/d" and b/c is a symbolic link.


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