for example if i replaced a text file in a game with a symlink to a modified version of that text file somewhere else on the machine, would the game still be able to read the file?
for example if i replaced a text file in a game with a symlink to a modified version of that text file somewhere else on the machine, would the game still be able to read the file?
The only reason the answer wouldn’t be “yes” is if for some reason the developers of that software or game specifically wrote in a check for whether or not a certain file is a symlink and coded the software to behave differently under those circumstances. There are almost no good reasons to do that.