Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
- Subject: Re: Generic creation of a symblic link
- From: James Bucanek <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:05:26 -0700
Jim Luther <mailto:email@hidden> wrote (Thursday, October
11, 2012 10:29 PM -0700):
As several others said, you cannot rewrite a symbolic link file.
I'm discovering that.
If you call
symlink(path1, path2) and path2 refers to an existing file, you'll just get a
EEXISTS error.
If you're trying to replace the target of a symlink atomically so that there's
always a symbolic link file at a certain path, rename(2) is your friend. You
can create a new symbolic link file in a temporary location and then rename it
over an existing symlink:
err = symlink(new_location, temp_symlink_location); err =
rename(temp_symlink_location, symlink_location);
That will work even if the file you're renaming over isn't a symbolic link
file.
Jim, that's a fantastic tip. I was just planing on deleting the
file to be replaced by the symlink first, but this is much smoother.
--
James Bucanek
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