| @node link |
| @section @code{link} |
| @findex link |
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| POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html} |
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| Gnulib module: link |
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| Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: |
| @itemize |
| @item |
| This function is missing on some platforms: |
| mingw, MSVC 14. |
| @item |
| This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on |
| some platforms: |
| FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 11.3, 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 |
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| 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 |
