Uhhh.... yeah, but that's the point. You have file at /some/path, then you put newer version of that file to /some/path, replacing the old file, and the symlin

Uhhh.... yeah, but that's the point. You have file at /some/path, then you put newer version of that file to /some/path, replacing the old file, and the symlink still points at the same address, and it doesn't matter what actually happened with the file itself. It's useful enough to warrant its own abstraction.