X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Flink.texi;h=6279fe83a00e972ec0fe66fde9317a6ffd3d99a6;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=ace07cdeb6036755bd496f0d46b780517d8f03d3;hpb=d1ed8a817f5d07d4013cfa0988ee2da8b2937db6;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi index ace07cdeb..6279fe83a 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi @@ -11,8 +11,16 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @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 +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