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stdio: Work around compilation error due to renameat() on Solaris 10. * lib/stdio.in.h: Include <unistd.h> on Solaris. * lib/renameat.c: Don't include <unistd.h> here. * doc/posix-functions/renameat.texi: Mention the Solaris problem. Reported by Paul Eggert and Eric Blake.
author Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
date Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:53:42 +0200
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@node link
@section @code{link}
@findex link

POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html}

Gnulib module: link

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@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 10, 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