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Reword a sentence bringing confusion about docker links

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As [discovered][1] doing user support, the sentence `You've learned that a link creates a
source container that can provide information about itself to a recipient container` brings
confusion.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26652877/how-to-avoid-redundant-container-linking-in-docker-when-propagating-ip-addresses/26654203?noredirect=1#comment41945048_26654203

Signed-off-by: Thomas LEVEIL <thomasleveil@gmail.com>
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@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ Next, inspect your linked containers with `docker inspect`:
You can see that the `web` container is now linked to the `db` container
`web/db`. Which allows it to access information about the `db` container.
So what does linking the containers actually do? You've learned that a link creates a
source container that can provide information about itself to a recipient container. In
So what does linking the containers actually do? You've learned that a link allows a
source container to provide information about itself to a recipient container. In
our example, the recipient, `web`, can access information about the source `db`. To do
this, Docker creates a secure tunnel between the containers that doesn't need to
expose any ports externally on the container; you'll note when we started the