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diff --git a/man2/link.2 b/man2/link.2 index ef4979878..1533409b9 100644 --- a/man2/link.2 +++ b/man2/link.2 @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> .\" Modified 2005-04-04, as per suggestion by Michael Hardt for rename.2 .\" -.TH link 2 2023-02-05 "Linux man-pages 6.03" +.TH link 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" .SH NAME link, linkat \- make a new name for a file .SH LIBRARY @@ -335,26 +335,6 @@ is an empty string, and .I olddirfd refers to a directory. .SH VERSIONS -.BR linkat () -was added in Linux 2.6.16; -library support was added in glibc 2.4. -.SH STANDARDS -.BR link (): -SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001 (but see NOTES), POSIX.1-2008. -.\" SVr4 documents additional ENOLINK and -.\" EMULTIHOP error conditions; POSIX.1 does not document ELOOP. -.\" X/OPEN does not document EFAULT, ENOMEM or EIO. -.PP -.BR linkat (): -POSIX.1-2008. -.SH NOTES -Hard links, as created by -.BR link (), -cannot span filesystems. -Use -.BR symlink (2) -if this is required. -.PP POSIX.1-2001 says that .BR link () should dereference @@ -385,7 +365,7 @@ is dereferenced if it is a symbolic link. For precise control over the treatment of symbolic links when creating a link, use .BR linkat (). -.SS glibc notes +.SS glibc On older kernels where .BR linkat () is unavailable, the glibc wrapper function falls back to the use of @@ -405,6 +385,29 @@ that correspond to the and .I newdirfd arguments. +.SH STANDARDS +.TP +.BR link () +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +.TP +.BR link () +SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001 (but see VERSIONS). +.\" SVr4 documents additional ENOLINK and +.\" EMULTIHOP error conditions; POSIX.1 does not document ELOOP. +.\" X/OPEN does not document EFAULT, ENOMEM or EIO. +.TP +.BR linkat () +POSIX.1-2008. +Linux 2.6.16, +glibc 2.4. +.SH NOTES +Hard links, as created by +.BR link (), +cannot span filesystems. +Use +.BR symlink (2) +if this is required. .SH BUGS On NFS filesystems, the return code may be wrong in case the NFS server performs the link creation and dies before it can say so. |