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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)symlink.2   6.3 (Berkeley) 8/26/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH SYMLINK 2 "August 26, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: symlink \- make symbolic link to a file
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .ft B
        !            14: symlink(name1, name2)
        !            15: char *name1, *name2;
        !            16: .fi
        !            17: .ft R
        !            18: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            19: A symbolic link
        !            20: .I name2
        !            21: is created to
        !            22: .IR name1
        !            23: (\fIname2\fP is the name of the
        !            24: file created, \fIname1\fP is the string
        !            25: used in creating the symbolic link).
        !            26: Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
        !            27: be on the same file system.
        !            28: .SH "RETURN VALUE
        !            29: Upon successful completion, a zero value is returned.
        !            30: If an error occurs, the error code is stored in \fIerrno\fP
        !            31: and a \-1 value is returned.
        !            32: .SH "ERRORS
        !            33: The symbolic link is made unless on or more of the
        !            34: following are true:
        !            35: .TP 15
        !            36: [ENOTDIR]
        !            37: A component of the \fIname2\fP prefix is not a directory.
        !            38: .TP 15
        !            39: [EINVAL]
        !            40: Either \fIname1\fP or \fIname2\fP
        !            41: contains a character with the high-order bit set.
        !            42: .TP 15
        !            43: [ENAMETOOLONG]
        !            44: A component of either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
        !            45: or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
        !            46: .TP 15
        !            47: [ENOENT]
        !            48: The named file does not exist.
        !            49: .TP 15
        !            50: [EACCES]
        !            51: A component of the \fIname2\fP path prefix denies search permission.
        !            52: .TP 15
        !            53: [ELOOP]
        !            54: Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
        !            55: .TP 15
        !            56: [EEXIST]
        !            57: \fIName2\fP already exists.
        !            58: .TP 15
        !            59: [EIO]
        !            60: An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for \fIname2\fP,
        !            61: or allocating the inode for \fIname2\fP,
        !            62: or writing out the link contents of \fIname2\fP.
        !            63: .TP 15
        !            64: [EROFS]
        !            65: The file \fIname2\fP would reside on a read-only file system.
        !            66: .TP 15
        !            67: [ENOSPC]
        !            68: The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
        !            69: cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
        !            70: system containing the directory.
        !            71: .TP 15
        !            72: [ENOSPC]
        !            73: The new symbolic link cannot be created because there
        !            74: there is no space left on the file
        !            75: system that will contain the symbolic link.
        !            76: .TP 15
        !            77: [ENOSPC]
        !            78: There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
        !            79: symbolic link is being created.
        !            80: .TP 15
        !            81: [EDQUOT]
        !            82: The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
        !            83: is being placed cannot be extended because the
        !            84: user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
        !            85: containing the directory has been exhausted.
        !            86: .TP 15
        !            87: [EDQUOT]
        !            88: The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
        !            89: quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
        !            90: contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
        !            91: .TP 15
        !            92: [EDQUOT]
        !            93: The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
        !            94: which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
        !            95: .TP 15
        !            96: [EIO]
        !            97: An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
        !            98: .TP 15
        !            99: [EFAULT]
        !           100: .I Name1
        !           101: or
        !           102: .I name2
        !           103: points outside the process's allocated address space.
        !           104: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           105: link(2), ln(1), unlink(2)

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