9.502 linkat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/linkat.html
Gnulib module: linkat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
- 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.
- This function fails to directly hardlink symlinks on some platforms:
Mac OS X 10.10.
- 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.
- This functions does not support
AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW
on some platforms:
Linux kernel 2.6.17.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: