PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks

       Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>

       Copyright 2004-2005 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

perl v5.36.0                                       2022-11-19                                       symlink(3pm)

       The PerlIO layer "symlink" allows you to create a symbolic link by writing to the file handle.

       You need to write C"link $name" to the file handle. If the format does not match, "close" will fail with
       EINVAL.

       PerlIO::via::symlink - PerlIO layers for create symlinks

        open $fh, '>:via(symlink)', $fname;
        print $fh "link foobar";
        close $fh;

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        blib/lib/PerlIO/via/symlink.pm       100.0  100.0    n/a  100.0  100.0  100.0
        Total                                100.0  100.0    n/a  100.0  100.0  100.0
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