+Unlike hard links,
+symbolic links can refernce directories and span filesystems boundaries.
+An
+.Fn lstat
+call on a hard link will return the information about the
+file (or directory) that the link references.
+A symbolic link does not have an owner,
+group, permissions, access and modification times, etc.
+The only attributes returned from an
+.Fn lstat
+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.