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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2014-10-31 18:12:15 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2014-11-03 15:10:33 +0100 |
| commit | c8e57ce5bbfc176ca622fcfff5af1982dd9ff17e (patch) | |
| tree | d2220bb41dfe4779dafefd5b4d58122f781a4cef /doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi | |
| parent | 08a713e078f03e7a870b0111960c6f4c54357152 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-c8e57ce5bbfc176ca622fcfff5af1982dd9ff17e.tar.gz | |
linkat: wrap to handle symlinks on OS X 10.10
* m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): linkat() is available on Yosemite
but not usable because it doesn't support creating hardlinks
to symlinks. Therefore add a generic test for this capability
and fallback to our emulation if linkat() fails with ENOTSUP.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi index 232a50b655..fadb350ab5 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi @@ -10,10 +10,13 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, +glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X < 10.10, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. @item +This function fails to directly hardlink symlinks on some platforms: +Mac OS X 10.10. +@item This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on some platforms: AIX 7.1, Solaris 11 2011-11. |