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+.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" @(#)readlink.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt READLINK 2
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm readlink
+.Nd read value of a symbolic link
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn readlink "const char *path" "char *buf" "int bufsiz"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Fn Readlink
+places the contents of the symbolic link
+.Fa path
+in the buffer
+.Fa buf ,
+which has size
+.Fa bufsiz .
+.Nm Readlink
+does not append a
+.Dv NUL
+character to
+.Fa buf .
+.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
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width ENAMETOOLONG
+.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
+A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
+.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
+A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
+.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
+extends outside the process's allocated address space.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr stat 2 ,
+.Xr lstat 2 ,
+.Xr symlink 2
+.Xr symlink 7 ,
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .
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