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places
the contents of the symbolic link in the buffer which has size does
not append a character to
The call returns the count of
characters placed in the buffer if it succeeds, or a -1 if an error occurs,
placing the error code in the global variable
will fail if: A
component of the path prefix is not a directory. A component of a pathname
exceeded characters, or an entire path name exceeded characters. The
named file does not exist. Search permission is denied for a component
of the path prefix. Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating
the pathname. The named file is not a symbolic link. An I/O error occurred
while reading from the file system. extends outside the process’s allocated
address space.
The function call appeared in
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