1130b656e5
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!) avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long. Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been insane otherwise.
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4.8 KiB
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160 lines
4.8 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)link.2 8.3 (Berkeley) 1/12/94
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd January 12, 1994
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.Dt LINK 2
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm link
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.Nd make a hard file link
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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 link "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn link
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function call
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atomically creates the specified directory entry (hard link)
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.Fa name2
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with the attributes of the underlying object pointed at by
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.Fa name1
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If the link is successful: the link count of the underlying object
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is incremented;
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.Fa name1
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and
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.Fa name2
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share equal access and rights
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to the
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underlying object.
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.Pp
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If
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.Fa name1
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is removed, the file
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.Fa name2
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is not deleted and the link count of the
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underlying object is
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decremented.
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.Pp
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.Fa Name1
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must exist for the hard link to
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succeed and
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both
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.Fa name1
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and
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.Fa name2
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must be in the same file system.
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.Fa name1
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may not be a directory.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise,
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a value of -1 is returned and
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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.Fn Link
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will fail and no link will be created if:
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.Bl -tag -width Ar
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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A component of either path 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 entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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A component of either path prefix does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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A component of either path prefix denies search permission.
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.It Bq Er EACCES
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The requested link requires writing in a directory with a mode
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that denies write permission.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating one of the pathnames.
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.It Bq Er ENOENT
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The file named by
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.Fa name1
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does not exist.
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.It Bq Er EEXIST
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The link named by
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.Fa name2
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does exist.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The file named by
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.Fa name1
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is a directory.
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.It Bq Er EXDEV
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The link named by
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.Fa name2
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and the file named by
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.Fa name1
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are on different file systems.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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The directory in which the entry for the new 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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.ne 3v
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.It Bq Er EDQUOT
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The directory in which the entry for the new 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 EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
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the file system to make the directory entry.
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.It Bq Er EROFS
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The requested link requires writing in a directory on a read-only file
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system.
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.It Bq Er EFAULT
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One of the pathnames specified
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is outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr symlink 2 ,
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.Xr unlink 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn link
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function call is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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A
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.Fn link
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function call appeared in
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.At v7 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn link
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system call traditionally allows the super-user to link directories which
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corrupts the filesystem coherency. This implementation no longer permits
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it.
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