8.1038 symlinkat
POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlinkat.html
Gnulib module: symlinkat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
- This function is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, 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.
- Some platforms declare this function in
stdio.h
instead of
unistd.h
:
Cygwin 1.7.1.
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
- This function always fails with ‘ENOSYS’ on platforms that don't
support symlinks:
mingw, MSVC 9.