From 9f9e2d81d1cbb7a4d2761cde3265d399f7c274d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kamil Dudka Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:25:23 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: improve readlink description here, too * doc/coreutils.texi (readlink invocation): Update menus. Add @cindex entries. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 61361ab29b..4599a276e7 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Special file types * mkdir invocation:: Make directories * mkfifo invocation:: Make FIFOs (named pipes) * mknod invocation:: Make block or character special files -* readlink invocation:: Print the referent of a symbolic link +* readlink invocation:: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name * rmdir invocation:: Remove empty directories * unlink invocation:: Remove files via unlink syscall @@ -8683,7 +8683,7 @@ Besides directories, other special file types include named pipes * mkdir invocation:: Make directories. * mkfifo invocation:: Make FIFOs (named pipes). * mknod invocation:: Make block or character special files. -* readlink invocation:: Print the referent of a symbolic link. +* readlink invocation:: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name. * rmdir invocation:: Remove empty directories. * unlink invocation:: Remove files via the unlink syscall @end menu @@ -9128,10 +9128,12 @@ Set the default SELinux security context to be used for created files. @node readlink invocation -@section @command{readlink}: Print the referent of a symbolic link +@section @command{readlink}: Print value of a symlink or canonical file name @pindex readlink @cindex displaying value of a symbolic link +@cindex canonical file name +@cindex canonicalize a file name @command{readlink} may work in one of two supported modes: -- 2.47.3