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SYMLINK(2)		    BSD System Calls Manual		    SYMLINK(2)

NAME
     symlink, symlinkat — make symbolic link to a file

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     int
     symlink(const char *name1, const char *name2);

     int
     symlinkat(const char *name1, int fd, const char *name2);

DESCRIPTION
     A symbolic link name2 is created to name1 (name2 is the name of the file
     created, name1 is the string used in creating the symbolic link).	Either
     name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not be on the same
     file system.

     The symlinkat() system call is equivalent to symlink() except in the case
     where name2 specifies a relative path.  In this case the symbolic link is
     created relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor fd
     instead of the current working directory.	If symlinkat() is passed the
     special value AT_FDCWD in the fd parameter, the current working directory
     is used and the behavior is identical to a call to symlink().

RETURN VALUES
     The symlink() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the
     value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the
     error.

ERRORS
     The symbolic link succeeds unless:

     [ENOTDIR]		A component of the name2 path prefix is not a direc‐
			tory.

     [ENAMETOOLONG]	A component of the name2 pathname exceeded 255 charac‐
			ters, or the entire length of either path name
			exceeded 1023 characters.

     [ENOENT]		A component of the name2 path prefix does not exist.

     [EACCES]		A component of the name2 path prefix denies search
			permission, or write permission is denied on the par‐
			ent directory of the file to be created.

     [ELOOP]		Too many symbolic links were encountered in translat‐
			ing the name2 path name.

     [EEXIST]		The path name pointed at by the name2 argument already
			exists.

     [EPERM]		The parent directory of the file named by name2 has
			its immutable flag set, see the chflags(2) manual page
			for more information.

     [EIO]		An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry
			for name2, or allocating the inode for name2, or writ‐
			ing out the link contents of name2.

     [EROFS]		The file name2 would reside on a read-only file sys‐
			tem.

     [ENOSPC]		The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic
			link is being placed cannot be extended because there
			is no space left on the file system containing the
			directory.

     [ENOSPC]		The new symbolic link cannot be created because there
			is no space left on the file system that will contain
			the symbolic link.

     [ENOSPC]		There are no free inodes on the file system on which
			the symbolic link is being created.

     [EDQUOT]		The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic
			link is being placed cannot be extended because the
			user's quota of disk blocks on the file system con‐
			taining the directory has been exhausted.

     [EDQUOT]		The new symbolic link cannot be created because the
			user's quota of disk blocks on the file system that
			will contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.

     [EDQUOT]		The user's quota of inodes on the file system on which
			the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.

     [EIO]		An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry
			or allocating the inode.

     [EFAULT]		The name1 or name2 argument points outside the
			process's allocated address space.

     In addition to the errors returned by the symlink(), the symlinkat() may
     fail if:

     [EBADF]		The name2 argument does not specify an absolute path
			and the fd argument is neither AT_FDCWD nor a valid
			file descriptor open for searching.

     [ENOTDIR]		The name2 argument is not an absolute path and fd is
			neither AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with
			a directory.

SEE ALSO
     ln(1), chflags(2), link(2), lstat(2), readlink(2), unlink(2), symlink(7)

STANDARDS
     The symlinkat() system call follows The Open Group Extended API Set 2
     specification.

HISTORY
     The symlink() system call appeared in 4.2BSD.  The symlinkat() system
     call appeared in FreeBSD 8.0.

BSD				April 10, 2008				   BSD
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