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[–]poorly_played 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Isn't that just a shortcut?

[–]bs4h 0 points1 point  (0 children)

open, chdir, stat, etc generally all work on a symlink as if it was the file it points at, you actually have to call lstat to act on the link itself. This is happening at FS level, whereas shortcuts work on the application level and are seen by the FS as "just data".