Description

   A symbolic link is a special kind of file that points to another
   file. It is a directory entry that associates a filename with a
   text string that is interpreted as a POSIX pathname when accessed
   by certain services. A symbolic link is implemented on OpenVMS
   systems as a file of organization SPECIAL and type SYMBOLIC_LINK.

   The symlink function creates a symbolic link (link_name)
   containing the specified contents (link_contents). No attempt
   is made at link creation time to interpret the symbolic link
   contents.

   See also readlink, unlink, realpath, lchown, and lstat.