pub fn read_link<P: AsRef<Path>>(path: P) -> Result<PathBuf>Expand description
Reads a symbolic link, returning the file that the link points to.
Platform-specific behavior
This function currently corresponds to the readlink function on Unix
and the CreateFile function with FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT and
FILE_FLAG_BACKUP_SEMANTICS flags on Windows.
Note that, this may change in the future.
Errors
This function will return an error in the following situations, but is not limited to just these cases:
pathis not a symbolic link.pathdoes not exist.
Examples
use std::fs;
fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
let path = fs::read_link("a.txt")?;
Ok(())
}