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Sun Studio 12: Fortran Library Reference

1.4.31.2 symlnk: Create a Symbolic Link to an Existing File

Example 2: symlnk: Create a symbolic link named data1 to the file, tlink.db.data.1:


demo% cat tsymlnk.f
       character*34 name1/’tlink.db.data.1’/, name2/’data1’/
       INTEGER*4 status, symlnk
       status = symlnk( name1, name2 )
       if ( status .ne. 0 ) stop ’symlnk: error’
       end
demo% f95 tsymlnk.f
demo% ls -l data1
data1 not found
demo% a.out
demo% ls -l data1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 generic 15 Aug 11 11:09 data1 -> tlink.db.data.1
demo%

See also: link(2), symlink(2), perror(3F), and unlink(3F).

Note: the path names cannot be longer than MAXPATHLEN as defined in <sys/param.h>.