Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
- Subject: Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
- From: Shantonu Sen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:55:53 -0700
So, Um. What are you trying to do. There is no semantic in OS X for rewriting symlink targets without recreating the symlink.
Shantonu
On Oct 11, 2012, at 5:50 PM, James Bucanek <email@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Luther <mailto:email@hidden> wrote (Thursday, October 11, 2012 5:30 PM -0700):
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>> symlink files are created in a single step by symlink(2). It's not a multi-step process in user-land code -- it's a single call into the kernel.
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> Which also means the source for symlink is probably in the kernel somewhere...
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> So, if I can't figure out a simple way of obtaining the symlink's data before creating it, then I should be able to call symlink() with an empty or placeholder string (i.e. ".") and then rewrite its content later.
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> James Bucanek
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