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29*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dd July 24, 1996
30*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Dt VOP_READLINK 9
31*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Os
32*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh NAME
33*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nm VOP_READLINK
34*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Nd read the target of a symbolic link
35*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SYNOPSIS
36*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.In sys/param.h
37*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.In sys/vnode.h
38*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.In sys/uio.h
39*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Ft int
40*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Fn VOP_READLINK "struct vnode *vp" "struct uio *uio" "struct ucred *cred"
41*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh DESCRIPTION
42*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis reads the target pathname of a symbolic link
43*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bl -tag -width uio
44*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Fa vp
45*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinothe vnode of the symlink
46*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Fa uio
47*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinothe location of the data to be read or written
48*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Fa cred
49*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinothe credentials of the caller
50*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.El
51*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh LOCKS
52*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThe vnode should be locked on entry and will still be locked on exit.
53*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh RETURN VALUES
54*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoZero is returned on success, otherwise an error code is returned.
55*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh PSEUDOCODE
56*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bd -literal
57*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoint
58*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinovop_readlink(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio, struct ucred *cred)
59*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino{
60*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino    int error = 0;
61*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino
62*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino    /*
63*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino     * Read the target of the symlink.
64*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino     */
65*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino    ...;
66*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino
67*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino    return error;
68*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino}
69*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Ed
70*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh ERRORS
71*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Bl -tag -width Er
72*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.It Bq Er EIO
73*86d7f5d3SJohn Marinoa read error occurred while reading the contents of the symlink
74*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.El
75*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh SEE ALSO
76*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr uiomove 9 ,
77*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Xr vnode 9
78*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.Sh AUTHORS
79*86d7f5d3SJohn MarinoThis man page was written by
80*86d7f5d3SJohn Marino.An Doug Rabson .
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