/* ln.c - Create filesystem links * * Copyright 2012 Andre Renaud <andre@bluewatersys.com> * * See http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/ln.html USE_LN(NEWTOY(ln, "<1vnfs", TOYFLAG_BIN)) config LN bool "ln" default y help usage: ln [-sfnv] [FROM...] TO Create a link between FROM and TO. With only one argument, create link in current directory. -s Create a symbolic link -f Force the creation of the link, even if TO already exists -n Symlink at destination treated as file -v Verbose */ #define FOR_ln #include "toys.h" void ln_main(void) { char *dest = toys.optargs[--toys.optc], *new; struct stat buf; int i; // With one argument, create link in current directory. if (!toys.optc) { toys.optc++; dest="."; } // Is destination a directory? if (((toys.optflags&FLAG_n) ? lstat : stat)(dest, &buf) || !S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)) { if (toys.optc>1) error_exit("'%s' not a directory", dest); buf.st_mode = 0; } for (i=0; i<toys.optc; i++) { int rc; char *oldnew, *try = toys.optargs[i]; if (S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)) new = xmprintf("%s/%s", dest, basename(try)); else new = dest; // Force needs to unlink the existing target (if any). Do that by creating // a temp version and renaming it over the old one, so we can retain the // old file in cases we can't replace it (such as hardlink between mounts). oldnew = new; if (toys.optflags & FLAG_f) { new = xmprintf("%s_XXXXXX", new); rc = mkstemp(new); if (rc >= 0) { close(rc); if (unlink(new)) perror_msg("unlink '%s'", new); } } rc = (toys.optflags & FLAG_s) ? symlink(try, new) : link(try, new); if (toys.optflags & FLAG_f) { if (!rc) { int temp; rc = rename(new, oldnew); temp = errno; if (rc && unlink(new)) perror_msg("unlink '%s'", new); errno = temp; } free(new); new = oldnew; } if (rc) perror_msg("cannot create %s link from '%s' to '%s'", (toys.optflags & FLAG_s) ? "symbolic" : "hard", try, new); else if (toys.optflags & FLAG_v) fprintf(stderr, "'%s' -> '%s'\n", new, try); if (new != dest) free(new); } }