X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Flink.texi;h=6279fe83a00e972ec0fe66fde9317a6ffd3d99a6;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=c785371a0f83ae88c8054a3cde6abafc7316b2b8;hpb=2d9360ffcc03fac61415d14595fd76e6abb59db3;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi index c785371a0..6279fe83a 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/link.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/link.texi @@ -14,9 +14,13 @@ mingw. @item This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on some platforms: -Solaris, Cygwin 1.5.x. +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