[Issue 15776] symlink documentation wrong: "Relative paths are relative to the current working directory"

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15776

ag0aep6g at gmail.com changed:

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--- Comment #2 from ag0aep6g at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Timothee Cour from comment #0)
> doc says, for symlink(original, link):
> 
> Relative paths are relative to the current working directory, not the files
> being linked to or from.
> 
> it should be:
> link is relative to cwd (if relative), original is relative to link (if
> relative), so that in the example below:

Already addressed by
<https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/3966>. See
<http://dlang.org/phobos-prerelease/std_file.html#.symlink> for the new
documentation.

(In reply to Timothee Cour from comment #1)
> Also, docs should specify precisely what happens when link ends with a '/'

This is still undocumented.

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