On Monday 27 July 2009 20:54:51 Unga wrote:
> Thanks everybody for valuable replies. In fact, I also used readlink(2) but
> fed the symlink path directly from dirent, which was partial, readlink(2)
> requires full path.
Nope it doesn't. It's the classical "opendir does not chdir" problem.
readli
--- On Tue, 7/28/09, Mel Flynn
wrote:
> From: Mel Flynn
> Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to?
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2009, 1:25 AM
> On Monday 27 July 2009 05:45:13 Unga
> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi all
>
On Monday 27 July 2009 05:45:13 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?
> >
> > B
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Unga wrote:
>
> --- On Mon, 7/27/09, Erik Trulsson wrote:
>
>> From: Erik Trulsson
>> Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to?
>> To: "Unga"
>> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>> Date: Monday, July 2
--- On Mon, 7/27/09, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> From: Erik Trulsson
> Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to?
> To: "Unga"
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Date: Monday, July 27, 2009, 9:36 PM
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:44:59AM
> -0700, Unga wrote:
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
