From 30f7802b782fcc4460f25c171111844ead110931 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Kyle E. Mitchell" <kyle@kemitchell.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 20:04:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify fs.link and fs.linkSync arguments

Clarifies documentation by replacing the argument names `srcpath`
and `dstpath` with more descriptive `existingPath` and `newPath`,
reflecting how POSIX describes `link()`.

PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/9145
Reviewed-By: Sakthipriyan Vairamani <thechargingvolcano@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com>
---
 doc/api/fs.md | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/api/fs.md b/doc/api/fs.md
index af7428b342..61ef618725 100644
--- a/doc/api/fs.md
+++ b/doc/api/fs.md
@@ -1036,25 +1036,25 @@ deprecated: v0.4.7
 
 Synchronous lchown(2). Returns `undefined`.
 
-## fs.link(srcpath, dstpath, callback)
+## fs.link(existingPath, newPath, callback)
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.1.31
 -->
 
-* `srcpath` {String | Buffer}
-* `dstpath` {String | Buffer}
+* `existingPath` {String | Buffer}
+* `newPath` {String | Buffer}
 * `callback` {Function}
 
 Asynchronous link(2). No arguments other than a possible exception are given to
 the completion callback.
 
-## fs.linkSync(srcpath, dstpath)
+## fs.linkSync(existingPath, newPath)
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.1.31
 -->
 
-* `srcpath` {String | Buffer}
-* `dstpath` {String | Buffer}
+* `existingPath` {String | Buffer}
+* `newPath` {String | Buffer}
 
 Synchronous link(2). Returns `undefined`.