kc3-lang/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi

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  Date : 2015-05-29T03:11:59
  

  linkat: avoid OS X 10.10 trailing slash with symlink bug
  
  On Darwin 14.3.0 linkat(,"path1",,"dangling_symlink/",)
  causes the symlink to be dereferenced, and if it points
  to a non existent file, that file will be created as
  a hard link to "path1".
  This fixes a test failure in test-linkat.c.
  
  * m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): Augment the test with
  this case.  The existing workaround in linkat.c for
  trailing slash issues, suffices for this case.
  * doc/posix-functions/linkat.texi: Add OS X 10.10 to
  the list of platforms with trailing slash issues.
  

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• @node linkat
  @section @code{linkat}
  @findex linkat
  
  POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/linkat.html}
  
  Gnulib module: linkat
  
  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @item
  This function is missing on some platforms:
  glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X < 10.10, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8,
  AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
  But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe.
  @item
  This function fails to directly hardlink symlinks on some platforms:
  Mac OS X 10.10.
  @item
  This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on
  some platforms:
  AIX 7.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, Mac OS X 10.10.
  @item
  This functions does not support @code{AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW} on some platforms:
  Linux kernel 2.6.17.
  @end itemize
  
  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
  @itemize
  @end itemize
  

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