[fs.op.create.symlink]

# 31 Input/output library [[input.output]](./#input.output)

## 31.12 File systems [[filesystems]](filesystems#fs.op.create.symlink)

### 31.12.13 Filesystem operation functions [[fs.op.funcs]](fs.op.funcs#fs.op.create.symlink)

#### 31.12.13.11 Create symlink [fs.op.create.symlink]

[🔗](#lib:create_symlink)

`void filesystem::create_symlink(const path& to, const path& new_symlink);
void filesystem::create_symlink(const path& to, const path& new_symlink,
                    error_code& ec) noexcept;
`

[1](#1)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/iostreams.tex#L17712)

*Effects*: Establishes the postcondition, as if by POSIX [symlink](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html)[.](#1.sentence-1)

[2](#2)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/iostreams.tex#L17716)

*Postconditions*: new_symlink resolves to a symbolic link file that
 contains an unspecified representation of to[.](#2.sentence-1)

[3](#3)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/iostreams.tex#L17721)

*Throws*: As specified in [[fs.err.report]](fs.err.report "31.12.5 Error reporting")[.](#3.sentence-1)

[4](#4)

[#](http://github.com/Eelis/draft/tree/9adde4bc1c62ec234483e63ea3b70a59724c745a/source/iostreams.tex#L17725)

[*Note [1](#note-1)*:

Some operating systems do not support symbolic links at all or support
 them only for regular files[.](#4.sentence-1)

Some file systems (such as the FAT file system) do not
 support symbolic links regardless of the operating system[.](#4.sentence-2)

— *end note*]