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.\" @(#)symlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt SYMLINK 2
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm symlink
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.Nd make symbolic link to a file
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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A symbolic link
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.Fa name2
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is created to
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.Fa name1
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.Pf ( Fa name2
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is the name of the
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file created,
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.Fa name1
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is the string
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used in creating the symbolic link).
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Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
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be on the same file system.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion, a zero value is returned.
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If an error occurs, the error code is stored in
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.Va errno
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and a -1 value is returned.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The symbolic link succeeds unless:
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.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOO
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of the
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.Fa name2
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prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
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or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The named file does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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A component of the
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.Fa name2
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path prefix denies search permission.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
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.It Bq Er EEXIST
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.Fa Name2
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already exists.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for
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.Fa name2 ,
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or allocating the inode for
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.Fa name2 ,
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or writing out the link contents of
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.Fa name2 .
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The file
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.Fa name2
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would reside on a read-only file system.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
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cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
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system containing the directory.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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The new symbolic link cannot be created because there
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there is no space left on the file
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system that will contain the symbolic link.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
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symbolic link is being created.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
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is being placed cannot be extended because the
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user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
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containing the directory has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
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quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
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contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
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which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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.Fa Name1
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or
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.Fa name2
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ln 1 ,
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1996-07-07 12:52:51 +00:00
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.Xr link 2 ,
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.Xr lstat 2 ,
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.Xr readlink 2 ,
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1997-01-20 23:23:22 +00:00
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.Xr unlink 2 ,
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.Xr symlink 7
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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1996-08-22 23:31:07 +00:00
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.Fn symlink
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1994-05-27 05:00:24 +00:00
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function call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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