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| author | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
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| committer | Jacob McDonnell <jacob@jacobmcdonnell.com> | 2026-04-25 19:54:44 -0400 |
| commit | a9157ce950dfe2fc30795d43b9d79b9d1bffc48b (patch) | |
| tree | 9df484304b560466d145e662c1c254ff0e9ae0ba /static/openbsd/man2/readlink.2 | |
| parent | 160aa82b2d39c46ad33723d7d909cb4972efbb03 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/static/openbsd/man2/readlink.2 b/static/openbsd/man2/readlink.2 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..8b64a734 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/openbsd/man2/readlink.2 @@ -0,0 +1,169 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: readlink.2,v 1.19 2015/05/31 23:54:25 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: readlink.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:35:54 cgd Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)readlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 +.\" +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2015 $ +.Dt READLINK 2 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm readlink , +.Nm readlinkat +.Nd read value of a symbolic link +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.In unistd.h +.Ft ssize_t +.Fn readlink "const char *restrict path" "char *restrict buf" "size_t bufsiz" +.In fcntl.h +.In unistd.h +.Ft ssize_t +.Fn readlinkat "int fd" "const char *path" "char *buf" "size_t bufsiz" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn readlink +function places the contents of the symbolic link +.Fa path +in the buffer +.Fa buf , +which has size +.Fa bufsiz . +.Fn readlink +does not append a +.Dv NUL +character to +.Fa buf . +.Pp +The +.Fn readlinkat +function is equivalent to +.Fn readlink +except that where +.Fa path +specifies a relative path, +the symbolic link whose contents are read is determined relative to +the directory associated with file descriptor +.Fa fd +instead of the current working directory. +.Pp +If +.Fn readlinkat +is passed the special value +.Dv AT_FDCWD +(defined in +.In fcntl.h ) +in the +.Fa fd +parameter, the current working directory is used +and the behavior is identical to a call to +.Fn readlink . +.Sh 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 +.Va errno . +.Sh ERRORS +.Fn readlink +and +.Fn readlinkat +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +A component of the path prefix is not a directory. +.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG +A component of a pathname exceeded +.Dv NAME_MAX +characters, or an entire pathname (including the terminating NUL) +exceeded +.Dv PATH_MAX +bytes. +.It Bq Er ENOENT +The named file does not exist. +.It Bq Er EACCES +Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix. +.It Bq Er ELOOP +Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname. +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The named file is not a symbolic link. +.It Bq Er EIO +An I/O error occurred while reading from the file system. +.It Bq Er EFAULT +.Fa buf +or +.Fa path +extends outside the process's allocated address space. +.El +.Pp +Additionally, +.Fn readlinkat +will fail if: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EBADF +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path and the +.Fa fd +argument is neither +.Dv AT_FDCWD +nor a valid file descriptor. +.It Bq Er ENOTDIR +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path and the +.Fa fd +argument is a valid file descriptor but it does not reference a directory. +.It Bq Er EACCES +The +.Fa path +argument specifies a relative path but search permission is denied +for the directory which the +.Fa fd +file descriptor references. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr lstat 2 , +.Xr stat 2 , +.Xr symlink 2 , +.Xr symlink 7 +.Sh STANDARDS +The +.Fn readlink +and +.Fn readlinkat +functions conform to +.St -p1003.1-2008 . +.Sh HISTORY +The +.Fn readlink +system call first appeared in +.Bx 4.1c . +The +.Fn readlinkat +system call has been available since +.Ox 5.0 . |
