What are the contents of a symbolic link?

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Hiii...

I wanna know "What are the contents of a symbolic link?".......
From google I dint get a good answer....that's why I posts here......

Thanking you.
Krishna

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There are 3 possible answers:

  1. Whatever your course study material says
  2. Nothing, as it's just something stored in the filesystem information, not a file
  3. Whatever is stored in the target file, as that's what all syscalls will read