English-German translations for dereference

To access the value or object located in a memory location stored in a pointer or another value interpreted as such; to access a value being referenced by something else
To operate on the file or directory pointed to by a symbolic link, rather than on the link itself
The act by which something is dereferenced

Attempting to dereference a null pointer often results in a crash
With the find command, any symbolic links appearing after -follow will be dereferenced

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