[SOLVED] Is it possible to open a symlink (won't follow) and read data from it?
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A symlink doesn't contain any data. It consists only of meta-data and is theoretically of size 0 bytes. Anything you need to know about the link can be gotten using 'lstat'.
readlink() places the contents of the symbolic link path in the buffer buf, which has size bufsiz. readlink() does not append a null byte to buf. It will truncate the contents (to a length of bufsiz characters), in case the buffer is too small to hold all of the contents.
Return Value
The call returns the count of characters placed in the buffer if it succeeds, or a -1 if an error occurs, placing the error code in errno.
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Last edited by neonsignal; 11-10-2010 at 06:16 AM.
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