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35 .Nd read the target of a symbolic link
41 .Fn VOP_READLINK "struct vnode *vp" "struct uio *uio" "struct ucred *cred"
43 This reads the target pathname of a symbolic link
46 the vnode of the symlink
48 the location of the data to be read or written
50 the credentials of the caller
53 The vnode should be locked on entry and will still be locked on exit.
55 Zero is returned on success, otherwise an error code is returned.
59 vop_readlink(struct vnode *vp, struct uio *uio, struct ucred *cred)
64 * Read the target of the symlink.
74 a read error occurred while reading the contents of the symlink
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