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Asked: 2026-05-12T12:15:52+00:00

I can’t understand the operation of the readlink systemcall in Linux. Can anyone explain

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I can’t understand the operation of the “readlink” systemcall in Linux.

Can anyone explain about it with simple example on it?

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    If you have a symbolic link, e.g.

    $ ls -l /vmlinuz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 2009-08-03 08:59 /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic

    then readlink syscall will get you the symlink target (boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic), just like readlink command:

    $ readlink /vmlinuz
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-15-generic
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