HP-UX Reference (11i v1 05/09) - 2 System Calls (vol 5)

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symlink(2) symlink(2)
HP-UX EXTENSIONS
ERRORS
If symlink() fails, errno is set to one of the following values.
[EFAULT] path1 or path2 points outside the process’s allocated address space. The
reliable detection of this error is implementation-dependent.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for path2, allocat-
ing the inode for path2, or writing out the link contents of path2.
[EIO] An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the
inode.
AUTHOR
symlink() was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.
SEE ALSO
cp(1), link(2), readlink(2), unlink(2), symlink(4).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
symlink(): AES, SVID3
Section 2−−416 Hewlett-Packard Company − 1 − HP-UX 11i Version 1: September 2005