opendarwin man page for readlink

Query: readlink

OS: opendarwin

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READLINK(2)						      BSD System Calls Manual						       READLINK(2)

NAME
readlink -- read value of a symbolic link
SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> int readlink(const char *path, char *buf, int bufsiz);
DESCRIPTION
Readlink() places the contents of the symbolic link path in the buffer buf, which has size bufsiz. Readlink does not append a NUL character to buf.
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: [ENOTDIR] A component of the path prefix is not a directory. [ENAMETOOLONG] A component of a pathname exceeded {NAME_MAX} characters, or an entire path name exceeded {PATH_MAX} characters. [ENOENT] The named file does not exist. [EACCES] Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. [ELOOP] Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. [EINVAL] The named file is not a symbolic link. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system. [EFAULT] Buf extends outside the process's allocated address space.
SEE ALSO
stat(2), lstat(2), symlink(2) symlink(7),
HISTORY
The readlink() function call appeared in 4.2BSD. 4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 4, 1993 4.2 Berkeley Distribution
Related Man Pages
readlink(2) - mojave
readlink(2) - sunos
readlink(2) - bsd
resolvepath(2) - opensolaris
readlink(2) - hpux
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