On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Unga<[email protected]> wrote: > > --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Erik Trulsson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Erik Trulsson <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to? >> To: "Unga" <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 9:36 PM >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:44:59AM >> -0700, Unga wrote: >> > >> > Hi all >> > >> > I need to remove some unwanted symlinks on /dev using >> a C program. >> > >> > The "struct dirent" only shows the symlink name, how >> do I find what that >> > symlink points to for verification purpose? >> >> By using the readlink(2) system call. >> > > But readlink(2) fails with errno set to 2. Can readlink(2) use with dev nodes? > > Unga >
Doesn't 'ls -alh' provide that information? Andrew _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
