X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Flink.texi;fp=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Flink.texi;h=d4f2a7e0b4da799fba00fe33f8123d4f5e6b3d58;hb=df1c2344f29dbca57d9e560aaa89aa2c20cdda7f;hp=172037c8993c212b0dcf5848004433e06266216b;hpb=cbf381169705782b144b2733798a62c11aa473a5;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi index 172037c89..d4f2a7e0b 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ mingw. 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: