(Answer) (Category) SCO(Caldera) UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8 FAQ : (Category) General Information :
What's a symbolic link?
A symlink is sometimes called a soft link and is another way to provide multiple names for the same file. A symlink can cross filesystem boundaries and can link directories.

Physically, when a user creates a symlink, a new file is created in the target directory, and that file's inode contains a pointer to the original file's data.

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