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authorAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-05-26 03:16:23 +0000
committerAaron Campbell <aaron@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-05-26 03:16:23 +0000
commitd9c94c67546ad28e098c66f4f48f3e8ff94fcc8c (patch)
tree8028a255202f88f3dfa8e1056429329787f4afc3 /lib
parent6c97155645cecb0ba8a85ddc1e997a677fca974e (diff)
mention that parameter name1 (the file to link to) need not exist; from NetBSD
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/libc/sys/symlink.26
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/symlink.2 b/lib/libc/sys/symlink.2
index bdbb61c7760..944c65cbac8 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/symlink.2
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/symlink.2
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: symlink.2,v 1.8 1999/05/23 14:10:56 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: symlink.2,v 1.9 1999/05/26 03:16:22 aaron Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: symlink.2,v 1.7 1995/02/27 12:38:34 cgd Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
@@ -56,7 +56,9 @@ file created,
is the string
used in creating the symbolic link).
Either name may be an arbitrary path name; the files need not
-be on the same file system.
+be on the same file system, and the file specified by
+.Fa name1
+need not exist at all.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a zero value is returned.
If an error occurs, the error code is stored in