Hard and Soft Links

• This is chapter 18
• hard links
  • int link(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
  • int unlink(const char *pathname);
  • int rename(const char *oldpath, const char *newpath);
    • Cool semantics on this one. Read the man page.
• Symbolic Links
  • The table on page 345 describes how some system calls deal with symbolic links.
  • int symlink(const char *target, const char *linkpath);
  • ssize_t readlink(const char *pathname, char *buf, size_t bufsiz);