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                                  stmt branch   cond    sub   time  total
        ----------------------------------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------
        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
       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 v5.32.0                      2020-07-07                        symlink(3)