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Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:36:05 +0200
From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: How to find what symlink points to?
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 05:44:59AM -0700, Unga wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> I need to remove some unwanted symlinks on /dev using a C program.
> 
> The "struct dirent" only shows the symlink name, how do I find what that
> symlink points to for verification purpose?

By using the readlink(2) system call.



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