[Info-vax] Looking for documentation for programming with symlinks

Jan-Erik Söderholm jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com
Fri Nov 8 11:32:09 EST 2019


Den 2019-11-08 kl. 17:13, skrev John Reagan:
> On Friday, November 8, 2019 at 9:04:57 AM UTC-5, John E. Malmberg wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am looking for documentation on programming symlinks using system
>> services.
>>
>> Particularly the usages of:
>>
>> ATR$C_SYMLINK
>> ATR$S_SYMLINK
>>
>> FAB$C_SYMLINK
>> FAB$C_SYMBOLIC_LINK
>>
>> naml$v_symlink_in_path
>> naml$v_object_symlink
>>
>> I think I can figure most of it out by looking at the header files
>> generated by SDL.
>>
>> Regards,
>> -John
>> wb8tyw at qsl.net_work
> 
> The ATR$ symbols are the F11XQP file attribute for a symlink.  The FAB$ ones are for creating/accessing a symlink.  For the NAML$ bits, I searched ALL the listings on a full Itanium build disk and found no uses of SYMLNK_IN_PATH at all.  For OBJECT_SYMLINK, I found one place in the CRTL that looks at it, but I found zero places that set it.
> 

Maybe just a type in this post, but "symlink_in_path" != "symlnk_in_path".



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