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Using links (whether they be hard or symbolic ones) you can break the strictly hierarchical structure of a FileSystem.
Most file related [system calls | syscalls(2)] like open(2) and stat(2) will operate on the referenced file instead of the link itself. Some of them have "SymLink-aware" counterparts that will operate on the SymLink itself instead, eg lstat(2) which [stat(2)]s the link instead of the linkee.
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+Comparable to Windows's (GUI) idea of a "shortcut".
