Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ln [-fhinsv] linked_filename [link_filename]
> > ln [-fhinsv] linked_filename ... dir_filename
> > link existing_filename alternate_filename
> >
> > This is cleaner, but I think "filename" should be standard in filenames.
>
> But it is not a filename.
It's a string which is used by ln(1) and the kernel's directory software
for a filename; if people want to misuse it for storing PIDs or control
strings or MP3s, that's an abuse of the system which the manual shouldn't
bother to accommodate.
> > Yuck; malloc.conf is nasty.
>
> No, it's extremely useful and efficient.
...
> Also, symlinks are an easy way to atomically check and create
> lockfiles in shell scripts.
Useful, efficient, easy -- and yucky, nasty, kludgy. Apt to break
if the directory scheme changes or to prevent improvements to same.
Maybe it should be:
ln string_for_directory filename_to_access_string_by
Just kidding. It can't end in a preposition.
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