Remove vespalib::symlink and vespalib::readLink

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 115 deletions

diff --git a/vespalib/src/tests/io/fileutil/fileutiltest.cpp b/vespalib/src/tests/io/fileutil/fileutiltest.cpp
index 1f398c8e026..337c9052a66 100644
--- a/vespalib/src/tests/io/fileutil/fileutiltest.cpp
+++ b/vespalib/src/tests/io/fileutil/fileutiltest.cpp
@@ -247,68 +247,6 @@ TEST("require that copy constructor and assignment for vespalib::File works")
     }
 }
 
-TEST("require that vespalib::symlink works")
-{
-    // Target exists
-    {
-        std::filesystem::remove_all(std::filesystem::path("mydir"));
-        std::filesystem::create_directory(std::filesystem::path("mydir"));
-
-        File f("mydir/myfile");
-        f.open(File::CREATE | File::TRUNC);
-        f.write("Hello World!\n", 13, 0);
-        f.close();
-
-        symlink("myfile", "mydir/linkyfile");
-        EXPECT_TRUE(fileExists("mydir/linkyfile"));
-
-        File f2("mydir/linkyfile");
-        f2.open(File::READONLY);
-        std::vector<char> vec(20, ' ');
-        size_t read = f2.read(&vec[0], 20, 0);
-        EXPECT_EQUAL(13u, read);
-        EXPECT_EQUAL(std::string("Hello World!\n"), std::string(&vec[0], 13));
-    }
-
-    // POSIX symlink() fails
-    {
-        std::filesystem::remove_all(std::filesystem::path("mydir"));
-        std::filesystem::create_directories(std::filesystem::path("mydir/a"));
-        std::filesystem::create_directory(std::filesystem::path("mydir/b"));
-        try {
-            // Link already exists
-            symlink("a", "mydir/b");
-            TEST_FATAL("Exception not thrown on already existing link");
-        } catch (IoException& e) {
-            EXPECT_EQUAL(IoException::ALREADY_EXISTS, e.getType());
-        }
-    }
-
-    {
-        std::filesystem::remove_all(std::filesystem::path("mydir"));
-        std::filesystem::create_directory(std::filesystem::path("mydir"));
-
-        File f("mydir/myfile");
-        f.open(File::CREATE | File::TRUNC);
-        f.write("Hello World!\n", 13, 0);
-        f.close();
-    }
-
-    // readLink success
-    {
-        symlink("myfile", "mydir/linkyfile");
-        EXPECT_EQUAL("myfile", readLink("mydir/linkyfile"));
-    }
-    // readLink failure
-    {
-        try {
-            readLink("no/such/link");
-        } catch (IoException& e) {
-            EXPECT_EQUAL(IoException::NOT_FOUND, e.getType());
-        }        
-    }
-}
-
 TEST("require that we can read all data written to file")
 {
     // Write text into a file.
diff --git a/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.cpp b/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.cpp
index 8e074744d15..1ff2d3434f7 100644
--- a/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.cpp
+++ b/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.cpp
@@ -449,34 +449,6 @@ getCurrentDirectory()
 }
 
 void
-symlink(const string & oldPath, const string & newPath)
-{
-    if (::symlink(oldPath.c_str(), newPath.c_str())) {
-        asciistream ss;
-        const int err = errno;
-        ss << "symlink(" << oldPath << ", " << newPath
-           << "): Failed, errno(" << err << "): "
-           << safeStrerror(err);
-        throw IoException(ss.str(), IoException::getErrorType(err), VESPA_STRLOC);
-    }
-}
-
-string
-readLink(const string & path)
-{
-    char buf[256];
-    ssize_t bytes(::readlink(path.c_str(), buf, sizeof(buf)));
-    if (bytes < 0) {
-        asciistream ss;
-        const int err = errno;
-        ss << "readlink(" << path << "): Failed, errno(" << err << "): "
-           << safeStrerror(err);
-        throw IoException(ss.str(), IoException::getErrorType(err), VESPA_STRLOC);
-    }
-    return string(buf, bytes);
-}
-
-void
 chdir(const string & directory)
 {
     if (::chdir(directory.c_str()) != 0) {
diff --git a/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.h b/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.h
index d06ecd05ca9..6214bf3e60d 100644
--- a/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.h
+++ b/vespalib/src/vespa/vespalib/io/fileutil.h
@@ -300,31 +300,6 @@ extern inline bool isSymLink(const vespalib::string & path) {
 }
 
 /**
- * Creates a symbolic link named newPath which contains the string oldPath.
- *
- * IMPORTANT: from the spec:
- * "Symbolic links are interpreted at run time as if the contents of the link had
- * been substituted into the path being followed to find a file or directory."
- *
- * This means oldPath is _relative_ to the directory in which newPath resides!
- *
- * @param oldPath Target of symbolic link.
- * @param newPath Relative link to be created. See above note for semantics.
- * @throw IoException if we fail to create the symlink.
- */
-extern void symlink(const vespalib::string & oldPath,
-                    const vespalib::string & newPath);
-
-/**
- * Read and return the contents of symbolic link at the given path.
- *
- * @param path Path to symbolic link.
- * @return Contents of symbolic link.
- * @throw IoException if we cannot read the link.
- */
-extern vespalib::string readLink(const vespalib::string & path);
-
-/**
  * List the contents of the given directory.
  */
 using DirectoryList = std::vector<vespalib::string>;