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link

SYNOPSIS

int link(const char *src, const char *new);

PARAMETERS

src: [in] points the the file we want to add a link to.

new: [in] points to the path for the new link.

DESCRIPTION

Creates a new (hard) link to a file. There is no way to distinguish the links.

RETURN VALUE

On success zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned and errno is set to one of the following values:

• EPERM: the file system does not support hard links or oldpath is the . or .. entry of a directory.
• EXDEV, EFAULT, EACCESS, ENAMETOOLONG, ENOENT, ENOTDIR, ENOMEM, EROFS, EEXIST, EMLINK, ELOOP and. ESPC.

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