home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
The Very Best of Atari Inside
/
The Very Best of Atari Inside 1.iso
/
mint
/
mintmant
/
fsymlink.txt
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1992-03-24
|
1KB
|
64 lines
Fsymlink(2) Oct. 7, 1991 Fsymlink(2)
NAME
Fsymlink - create a symbolic link to a file
SYNOPSIS
LONG Fsymlink( char *oldname, char *newname );
DESCRIPTION
Fsymlink creates a new symbolic link (a "soft link") for the
file currently named oldname. If the Fsymlink call is suc-
cessful, then after the call the file may be referred to by
either name. A call to Fdelete on the new name will not
affect the existence of the file, just of the symbolic link.
A a call to Fdelete with the name oldname will actually
delete the file, and future references with newname will
fail.
Unlike hard links, symbolic links may be made between files
on different devices or even different types of file sys-
tems.
RETURNS
0 on success
EINVFN if the file system does not allow symbolic links
An appropriate error code if the new symbolic link cannot be
created.
SEE ALSO
Flink(2), Freadlink(2), Frename(2)
BUGS
No check is made for the existence of the file named old-
name; this could be construed as a feature.
Version 0.9 Last change: MiNT Programmer's Manual 1