/* * Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009 * The President and Fellows of Harvard College. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions * are met: * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright * notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the * documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors * may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software * without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE UNIVERSITY AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND * ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE * FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL * DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS * OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) * HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT * LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. */ #include #include #include #include /* * ln - hardlink or symlink files * * Usage: ln oldfile newfile * ln -s symlinkcontents symlinkfile */ /* * Create a symlink with filename PATH that contains text TEXT. * When fed to ls -l, this produces something that looks like * * lrwxrwxrwx [stuff] PATH -> TEXT */ static void dosymlink(const char *text, const char *path) { if (symlink(text, path)) { err(1, "%s", path); } } /* * Create a hard link such that NEWFILE names the same file as * OLDFILE. Since it's a hard link, the two names for the file * are equal; both are the "real" file. */ static void dohardlink(const char *oldfile, const char *newfile) { if (link(oldfile, newfile)) { err(1, "%s or %s", oldfile, newfile); exit(1); } } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { /* * Just do whatever was asked for. * * We don't allow the Unix model where you can do * ln [-s] file1 file2 file3 destination-directory */ if (argc==4 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-s")) { dosymlink(argv[2], argv[3]); } else if (argc==3) { dohardlink(argv[1], argv[2]); } else { warnx("Usage: ln oldfile newfile"); errx(1, " ln -s symlinkcontents symlinkfile\n"); } return 0; }