#include <unistd.h> int
link (const char *name1 const char *name2);
DESCRIPTION
The
link ();
system call
atomically creates the specified directory entry (hard link)
Fa name2
with the attributes of the underlying object pointed at by
Fa name1 .
If the link is successful: the link count of the underlying object
is incremented;
Fa name1
and
Fa name2
share equal access and rights
to the
underlying object.
If
Fa name1
is removed, the file
Fa name2
is not deleted and the link count of the
underlying object is
decremented.
The object pointed at by the
Fa name1
argument
must exist for the hard link to
succeed and
both
Fa name1
and
Fa name2
must be in the same file system.
The
Fa name1
argument
may not be a directory.
RETURN VALUES
Rv -std link
ERRORS
The
link ();
system call
will fail and no link will be created if:
Bq Er ENOTDIR
A component of either path prefix is not a directory.
Bq Er ENAMETOOLONG
A component of either pathname exceeded 255 characters,
or entire length of either path name exceeded 1023 characters.
Bq Er ENOENT
A component of either path prefix does not exist.
Bq Er EOPNOTSUPP
The file system containing the file named by
Fa name1
does not support links.
Bq Er EMLINK
The link count of the file named by
Fa name1
would exceed 32767.
Bq Er EACCES
A component of either path prefix denies search permission.
Bq Er EACCES
The requested link requires writing in a directory with a mode
that denies write permission.
Bq Er ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating one of the pathnames.
Bq Er ENOENT
The file named by
Fa name1
does not exist.
Bq Er EEXIST
The link named by
Fa name2
does exist.
Bq Er EPERM
The file named by
Fa name1
is a directory.
Bq Er EPERM
The file named by
Fa name1
has its immutable or append-only flag set, see the
chflags(2)
manual page for more information.
Bq Er EPERM
The parent directory of the file named by
Fa name2
has its immutable flag set.
Bq Er EXDEV
The link named by
Fa name2
and the file named by
Fa name1
are on different file systems.
Bq Er ENOSPC
The directory in which the entry for the new link is being placed
cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file
system containing the directory.
Bq Er EDQUOT
The directory in which the entry for the new 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.
Bq Er EIO
An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to
the file system to make the directory entry.
Bq Er EROFS
The requested link requires writing in a directory on a read-only file
system.
Bq Er EFAULT
One of the pathnames specified
is outside the process's allocated address space.
The
link ();
system call is expected to conform to
St -p1003.1-90 .
HISTORY
The
link ();
function appeared in
AT&T System
v7 .
The
link ();
system call traditionally allows the super-user to link directories which
corrupts the file system coherency.
This implementation no longer permits
it.
