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28 .\" @(#)symlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
36 .Nd make symbolic link to a file
42 .Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
53 used in creating the symbolic link).
54 Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
55 be on the same file system.
59 The symbolic link succeeds unless:
64 path prefix is not a directory.
65 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
68 pathname exceeded 255 characters,
69 or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
73 path prefix does not exist.
77 path prefix denies search permission, or write permission is denied on the
78 parent directory of the file to be created.
80 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the
84 The path name pointed at by the
89 The parent directory of the file named by
91 has its immutable flag set, see the
93 manual page for more information.
95 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for
97 or allocating the inode for
99 or writing out the link contents of
104 would reside on a read-only file system.
106 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
107 cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
108 system containing the directory.
110 The new symbolic link cannot be created because
111 there is no space left on the file
112 system that will contain the symbolic link.
114 There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
115 symbolic link is being created.
117 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
118 is being placed cannot be extended because the
119 user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
120 containing the directory has been exhausted.
122 The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
123 quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
124 contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
126 The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
127 which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
129 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
136 points outside the process's allocated address space.
149 system call appeared in