5 POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html}
7 LSB specification:@* @url{https://refspecs.linuxbase.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/baselib-link-1.html}
11 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
14 This function is missing on some platforms:
17 This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on
19 FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 11.3, Cygwin 1.5.x.
21 When the second argument is a dangling symlink, some platforms follow
22 that link and create the destination rather than failing:
26 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
29 When the first argument is a symlink, some platforms create a
30 hard-link to what the symlink referenced, rather than to the symlink
31 itself. Use @samp{linkat} to force a particular behavior.