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5.6 KiB
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207 lines
5.6 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)symlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 10, 2008
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.Dt SYMLINK 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm symlink ,
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.Nm symlinkat
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.Nd make symbolic link to a file
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
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.Ft int
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.Fn symlinkat "const char *name1" "int fd" "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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.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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.Pp
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The
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.Fn symlinkat
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system call is equivalent to
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.Fn symlink
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except in the case where
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.Fa name2
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specifies a relative path.
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In this case the symbolic link is created relative to the directory
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associated with the file descriptor
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.Fa fd
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instead of the current working directory.
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If
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.Fn symlinkat
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is passed the special value
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.Dv AT_FDCWD
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in the
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.Fa fd
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parameter, the current working directory is used and the behavior is
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identical to a call to
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.Fn symlink .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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.Rv -std symlink
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.Sh ERRORS
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The symbolic link succeeds unless:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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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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path prefix is not a directory.
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.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
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A component of the
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.Fa name2
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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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A component of the
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.Fa name2
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path prefix 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, or write permission is denied on the
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parent directory of the file to be created.
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.It Bq Er ELOOP
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Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the
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.Fa name2
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path name.
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.It Bq Er EEXIST
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The path name pointed at by the
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.Fa name2
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argument
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already exists.
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.It Bq Er EPERM
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The parent directory of the file named by
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.Fa name2
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has its immutable flag set, see the
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.Xr chflags 2
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manual page for more information.
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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
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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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The
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.Fa name1
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or
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.Fa name2
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argument
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points outside the process's allocated address space.
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.El
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.Pp
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In addition to the errors returned by the
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.Fn symlink ,
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the
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.Fn symlinkat
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may fail if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The
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.Fa name2
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argument does not specify an absolute path and the
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.Fa fd
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argument is neither
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.Dv AT_FDCWD
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nor a valid file descriptor open for searching.
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.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
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The
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.Fa name2
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argument is not an absolute path and
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.Fa fd
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is neither
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.Dv AT_FDCWD
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nor a file descriptor associated with a directory.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ln 1 ,
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.Xr chflags 2 ,
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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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.Xr unlink 2 ,
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.Xr symlink 7
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn symlinkat
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system call follows The Open Group Extended API Set 2 specification.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn symlink
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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The
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.Fn symlinkat
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system call appeared in
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.Fx 8.0 .
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