Function symLinkAbsolute [src]

Creates a symbolic link named sym_link_path which contains the string target_path. A symbolic link (also known as a soft link) may point to an existing file or to a nonexistent one; the latter case is known as a dangling link. If sym_link_path exists, it will not be overwritten. See also symLinkAbsoluteZ and symLinkAbsoluteW. On Windows, both paths should be encoded as WTF-8. On WASI, both paths should be encoded as valid UTF-8. On other platforms, both paths are an opaque sequence of bytes with no particular encoding.

Prototype

pub fn symLinkAbsolute( target_path: []const u8, sym_link_path: []const u8, flags: Dir.SymLinkFlags, ) !void

Parameters

target_path: []const u8sym_link_path: []const u8flags: Dir.SymLinkFlags

Source

  pub fn symLinkAbsolute(
    target_path: []const u8,
    sym_link_path: []const u8,
    flags: Dir.SymLinkFlags,
) !void {
    assert(path.isAbsolute(target_path));
    assert(path.isAbsolute(sym_link_path));
    if (native_os == .windows) {
        const target_path_w = try windows.sliceToPrefixedFileW(null, target_path);
        const sym_link_path_w = try windows.sliceToPrefixedFileW(null, sym_link_path);
        return windows.CreateSymbolicLink(null, sym_link_path_w.span(), target_path_w.span(), flags.is_directory);
    }
    return posix.symlink(target_path, sym_link_path);
}  