08-27-2012
I still don't understand how readlink -f $0 is supposed to produce a full (or absolute) pathname for a shell script that was invoked as ./script or as bin/script. First, the readlink utility on openBSD and OS X systems doesn't have a -f option. Second, the man pages for systems I've seen that have a man page for readlink(1) that do have a -f option don't say anything about being able to turn a relative pathname into an absolute pathname (unless there is a symbolic link in the path being processed that expands to an absolute pathname). And, third, many systems (including Solaris 10 and 11) don't have a readlink utility at all.
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readlink
READLINK(2) BSD System Calls Manual READLINK(2)
NAME
readlink, readlinkat -- read value of a symbolic link
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
ssize_t
readlink(const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize);
ssize_t
readlinkat(int fd, const char *restrict path, char *restrict buf, size_t bufsize);
DESCRIPTION
readlink() places the contents of the symbolic link path in the buffer buf, which has size bufsize. Readlink does not append a NUL character
to buf.
The readlinkat() system call is equivalent to readlink() except in the case where path specifies a relative path. In this case the symbolic
link whose content is read relative to the directory associated with the file descriptor fd instead of the current working directory. If
readlinkat() 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 readlink().
RETURN VALUES
The call returns the count of characters placed in the buffer if it succeeds, or a -1 if an error occurs, placing the error code in the
global variable errno.
ERRORS
readlink() will fail if:
[EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
[EFAULT] Buf extends outside the process's allocated address space.
[EINVAL] The named file is not a symbolic link.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system.
[ELOOP] Too many symbolic links are encountered in translating the pathname. This is taken to be indicative of a looping symbolic
link.
[ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name (possibly expanded by a symbolic link)
exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters.
[ENOENT] The named file does not exist.
[ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
In addition to the errors returned by the readlink(), the readlinkat() may fail if:
[EBADF] The path 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 path argument is not an absolute path and fd is neither AT_FDCWD nor a file descriptor associated with a directory.
LEGACY SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h>
int
readlink(const char *path, char *buf, int bufsize);
The function type and the type of bufsize have changed.
SEE ALSO
lstat(2), stat(2), symlink(2), compat(5), symlink(7)
STANDARDS
The readlinkat() system call is expected to conform to POSIX.1-2008 .
HISTORY
The readlink() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. The readlinkat() system call appeared in OS X 10.10
4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution