* hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn: new file --- hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn
diff --git a/hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn b/hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f5f4b03f --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/translator/symlink.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag stable_URL]] + +The hurd `symlink` translator lets you create a filesystem node that +refers to another node. It is similar to the `ln` command. Suppose +you begin writing a new filesystem for the hurd from scratch. To +develop it quickly, you could skip implementing symlinks. The user +would instead use the `/hurd/symlink` translator. The Hurd could +provide all sorts of filesystem like functionality that would work +regardless of the user's choice of filesystem. + +Please note that [[ext2fs]] does not use `/hurd/symlink`. Instead it +supports linking directly in the filesystem, since that is faster than +using `/hurd/symlink`. -- 2.45.2
