Function

v_readlink invokes the v_readlink callable service to read the symbolic link file represented by the vnode token and return its contents in variable.

Parameters

vntoken

A variable name that contains the vnode token for the symbolic link to be read.

The attribute stem returned on call to another function (for example, v_getattr) identifies whether the symbolic link is a link to an external name in the stem index ST_EXTLINK. An external name is the name of an object outside the HFS.

variable

The name of the buffer that, upon return, contains the contents of the symbolic link.