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30 .\" @(#)symlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
37 .Nd make symbolic link to a file
43 .Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
54 used in creating the symbolic link).
55 Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need neither
56 to be on the same file system nor to exist.
58 Upon successful completion, a zero value is returned.
59 If an error occurs, the error code is stored in
61 and a \-1 value is returned.
63 The symbolic link succeeds unless:
68 prefix is not a directory.
69 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
70 A component of a pathname exceeded
72 characters, or an entire path name exceeded
82 path prefix denies search permission.
84 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
89 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for
91 or allocating the inode for
93 or writing out the link contents of
98 would reside on a read-only file system.
100 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
101 cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
102 system containing the directory.
104 The new symbolic link cannot be created because there
105 there is no space left on the file
106 system that will contain the symbolic link.
108 There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
109 symbolic link is being created.
111 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
112 is being placed cannot be extended because the
113 user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
114 containing the directory has been exhausted.
116 The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
117 quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
118 contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
120 The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
121 which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
123 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
128 points outside the process's allocated address space.
139 function call appeared in