NAME

VOP_READLINK —

read the target of a symbolic link

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/vnode.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>

int
VOP_READLINK(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio, struct ucred *cred);

This reads the target pathname of a symbolic link

The vnode should be locked on entry and will still be locked on exit.

Zero is returned on success, otherwise an error code is returned.

[EIO]: A read error occurred while reading the contents of the symlink.
[EINTEGRITY]: Corrupted data was detected while reading the contents of the symlink.

This manual page was written by Doug Rabson.