Does anyone know how to get the actual referenced filename from a
symbolic link from a c program. What would be the system call? There
must be one, because "ls -l" will give you the link and then the
reference. Can someone help please.

Tiger dudes <God@bless.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get the actual referenced filename from a
> symbolic link from a c program. What would be the system call? There
> must be one, because "ls -l" will give you the link and then the
> reference. Can someone help please.

The bottom of the symlink(2) man page mentions these functions..

SEE ALSO
     cp(1), link(2), open(2), readlink(2), stat(2), unlink(2)

I'll bet at least one of them is what you want.  :-)

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