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symlink(3)                           User Contributed Perl Documentation                          symlink(3)



NAME
       PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks

SYNOPSIS
        open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname;
        print $fh "link foobar";
        close $fh;

DESCRIPTION
       The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle.

       You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail
       with EINVAL.

TEST COVERAGE
        ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------File -----File
        File                                  stmt branch   cond    sub   time  total
        ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm -----blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm
        blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm       100.0  100.0    n/a  100.0  100.0  100.0
        Total                                100.0  100.0    n/a  100.0  100.0  100.0
        ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------AUTHORS -----AUTHORS

AUTHORS
       Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html



perl v5.8.8                                      2005-03-01                                       symlink(3)