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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/link.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/link.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e65e84f --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/link.texi @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +@node link +@section @code{link} +@findex link + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html} + +Gnulib module: link + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on +some platforms: +FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.5.x. +@item +When the second argument is a dangling symlink, some platforms follow +that link and create the destination rather than failing: +IRIX 6.5. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +When the first argument is a symlink, some platforms create a +hard-link to what the symlink referenced, rather than to the symlink +itself. Use @samp{linkat} to force a particular behavior. +@end itemize |