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+.\"     @(#)symlink.2	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt SYMLINK 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm symlink
+.Nd make symbolic link to a file
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In unistd.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn symlink "const char *name1" "const char *name2"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+A symbolic link
+.Fa name2
+is created to
+.Fa name1
+.Pf ( Fa name2
+is the name of the
+file created,
+.Fa name1
+is the string
+used in creating the symbolic link).
+Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
+be on the same file system.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std symlink
+.Sh ERRORS
+The symbolic link succeeds unless:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ENOTDIR
+A component of the
+.Fa name2
+prefix is not a directory.
+.It Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
+A component of either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
+or the entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
+.It Bq Er ENOENT
+The named file does not exist.
+.It Bq Er EACCES
+A component of the
+.Fa name2
+path prefix denies search permission.
+.It Bq Er ELOOP
+Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
+.It Bq Er EEXIST
+.Fa Name2
+already exists.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry for
+.Fa name2 ,
+or allocating the inode for
+.Fa name2 ,
+or writing out the link contents of
+.Fa name2 .
+.It Bq Er EROFS
+The file
+.Fa name2
+would reside on a read-only file system.
+.It Bq Er ENOSPC
+The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link is being placed
+cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
+system containing the directory.
+.It Bq Er ENOSPC
+The new symbolic link cannot be created because
+there is no space left on the file
+system that will contain the symbolic link.
+.It Bq Er ENOSPC
+There are no free inodes on the file system on which the
+symbolic link is being created.
+.It Bq Er EDQUOT
+The directory in which the entry for the new symbolic link
+is being placed cannot be extended because the
+user's quota of disk blocks on the file system
+containing the directory has been exhausted.
+.It Bq Er EDQUOT
+The new symbolic link cannot be created because the user's
+quota of disk blocks on the file system that will
+contain the symbolic link has been exhausted.
+.It Bq Er EDQUOT
+The user's quota of inodes on the file system on
+which the symbolic link is being created has been exhausted.
+.It Bq Er EIO
+An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
+.It Bq Er EFAULT
+.Fa Name1
+or
+.Fa name2
+points outside the process's allocated address space.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr ln 1 ,
+.Xr link 2 ,
+.Xr lstat 2 ,
+.Xr readlink 2 ,
+.Xr unlink 2 ,
+.Xr symlink 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn symlink
+function call appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .