old 4.4 symlink behaviour no long valid

diff --git a/bin/ln/symlink.7 b/bin/ln/symlink.7
index 36cd96a..be2bc18 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/ln/symlink.7
+++ b/bin/ln/symlink.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: symlink.7,v 1.3 1995/03/21 09:06:13 cgd Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: symlink.7,v 1.4 1996/04/25 15:44:56 mycroft Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1992, 1993, 1994
 .\"    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -121,18 +121,6 @@ is an alias for
 .Xr unlink 2 ,
 it also does not follow symbolic links.
 .Pp
-Unlike other filesystem objects, symbolic links do not have an owner,
-group, permissions, access and modification times, etc.
-The only attributes returned from an
-.Xr lstat 2
-that refer to the symbolic link itself are the file type (S_IFLNK),
-size, blocks, and link count (always 1).
-The other attributes are filled in from the directory that contains
-the link.
-For portability reasons, you should be aware that other implementations
-(including historic implementations of 4BSD), implement symbolic links
-such that they have the same attributes as any other file.
-.Pp
 The
 .Bx 4.4
 system differs from historical 4BSD systems in that the system call