Function hard_link

pub fn hard_link<P: AsRef<Path>, Q: AsRef<Path>>(
    original: P,
    link: Q,
) -> Result<()>

Creates a new hard link on the filesystem.

The link path will be a link pointing to the original path. Note that systems often require these two paths to both be located on the same filesystem.

If original names a symbolic link, it is platform-specific whether the symbolic link is followed. On platforms where it’s possible to not follow it, it is not followed, and the created hard link points to the symbolic link itself.

Platform-specific behavior

This function currently corresponds the CreateHardLink function on Windows. On most Unix systems, it corresponds to the linkat function with no flags. On Android, VxWorks, and Redox, it instead corresponds to the link function. On MacOS, it uses the linkat function if it is available, but on very old systems where linkat is not available, link is selected at runtime instead. 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:

• The original path is not a file or doesn’t exist.

Examples

use std::fs;

fn main() -> std::io::Result<()> {
    fs::hard_link("a.txt", "b.txt")?; // Hard link a.txt to b.txt
    Ok(())
}