POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html}
-Gnulib module: ---
+Gnulib module: link
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
+@item
+This function is missing on some platforms:
+mingw.
+@item
+This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on
+some platforms:
+FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris, Cygwin 1.5.x.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
-This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw.
+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