Re: Mistake running ADDLNK OBJ('/qsys.lib') NEWLNK('/test/') -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Mistake running ADDLNK OBJ('/qsys.lib') NEWLNK('/test/')
From: Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:39:02 -0400
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No, creating a symbolic link to a directory is not recursive. The
directory is symbolic, but the contents are real....

Think of the symbolic link as a short cut....once you traverse it
you're in the same place you'd have been taking the long way around.

HTH,
Charles

On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Gqcy <gmufasa01@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I guess I don't understand about symbolic links...
I thought that all links under the symbolic link "/test"
would be symbolic as well, and would not actually delete the
physical object, only the symbolic link...

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