| @node symlinkat |
| @section @code{symlinkat} |
| @findex symlinkat |
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| POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlinkat.html} |
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| Gnulib module: symlinkat |
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| 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, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4. |
| But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. |
| @item |
| Some platforms declare this function in @code{stdio.h} instead of |
| @code{unistd.h}: |
| Cygwin 1.7.1. |
| @item |
| On some systems, @code{symlinkat(value, fd, "name/")} mistakenly creates a |
| symlink: |
| AIX 7.1. |
| @end itemize |
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| Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: |
| @itemize |
| @item |
| This function always fails with @samp{ENOSYS} on platforms that don't |
| support symlinks: |
| mingw, MSVC 14. |
| @end itemize |
