+ ("ln", (RErr, [String "target"; String "linkname"]), 164, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["ln"; "/a"; "/b"];
+ ["stat"; "/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("nlink", 2)])],
+ "create a hard link",
+ "\
+This command creates a hard link using the C<ln> command.");
+
+ ("ln_f", (RErr, [String "target"; String "linkname"]), 165, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["touch"; "/b"];
+ ["ln_f"; "/a"; "/b"];
+ ["stat"; "/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("nlink", 2)])],
+ "create a hard link",
+ "\
+This command creates a hard link using the C<ln -f> command.
+The C<-f> option removes the link (C<linkname>) if it exists already.");
+
+ ("ln_s", (RErr, [String "target"; String "linkname"]), 166, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["touch"; "/a"];
+ ["ln_s"; "a"; "/b"];
+ ["lstat"; "/b"]], [CompareWithInt ("mode", 0o120777)])],
+ "create a symbolic link",
+ "\
+This command creates a symbolic link using the C<ln -s> command.");
+
+ ("ln_sf", (RErr, [String "target"; String "linkname"]), 167, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutput (
+ [["mkdir_p"; "/a/b"];
+ ["touch"; "/a/b/c"];
+ ["ln_sf"; "../d"; "/a/b/c"];
+ ["readlink"; "/a/b/c"]], "../d")],
+ "create a symbolic link",
+ "\
+This command creates a symbolic link using the C<ln -sf> command,
+The C<-f> option removes the link (C<linkname>) if it exists already.");
+
+ ("readlink", (RString "link", [String "path"]), 168, [],
+ [] (* XXX tested above *),
+ "read the target of a symbolic link",
+ "\
+This command reads the target of a symbolic link.");
+
+ ("fallocate", (RErr, [String "path"; Int "len"]), 169, [],
+ [InitBasicFS, Always, TestOutputStruct (
+ [["fallocate"; "/a"; "1000000"];
+ ["stat"; "/a"]], [CompareWithInt ("size", 1_000_000)])],
+ "preallocate a file in the guest filesystem",
+ "\
+This command preallocates a file (containing zero bytes) named
+C<path> of size C<len> bytes. If the file exists already, it
+is overwritten.
+
+Do not confuse this with the guestfish-specific
+C<alloc> command which allocates a file in the host and
+attaches it as a device.");
+