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40 .Nd make symbolic link to a file
46 .Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
57 used in creating the symbolic link).
58 Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
59 be on the same file system.
63 The symbolic link succeeds unless:
68 prefix is not a directory.
69 .It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
70 A component of either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
71 or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
73 The named file does not exist.
77 path prefix denies search permission.
79 Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
84 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for
86 or allocating the inode for
88 or writing out the link contents of
93 would reside on a read-only file system.
95 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
96 cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
97 system containing the directory.
99 The new symbolic link cannot be created because
100 there is no space left on the file
101 system that will contain the symbolic link.
103 There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
104 symbolic link is being created.
106 The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
107 is being placed cannot be extended because the
108 user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
109 containing the directory has been exhausted.
111 The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
112 quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
113 contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
115 The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
116 which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
118 An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
123 points outside the process's allocated address space.
135 function call appeared in