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@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Standard C library
.P
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
-.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
+.MR feature_test_macros 7 ):
.RE
.P
.BR linkat ():
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ If
is an empty string, create a link to the file referenced by
.I olddirfd
(which may have been obtained using the
-.BR open (2)
+.MR open 2
.B O_PATH
flag).
In this case,
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ Before Linux 2.6.18, the
argument was unused, and had to be specified as 0.
.P
See
-.BR openat (2)
+.MR openat 2
for an explanation of the need for
.BR linkat ().
.SH RETURN VALUE
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ in the path prefix of
or
.IR newpath .
(See also
-.BR path_resolution (7).)
+.MR path_resolution 7 .)
.TP
.B EDQUOT
The user's quota of disk blocks on the filesystem has been exhausted.
@@ -201,11 +201,11 @@ The file referred to by
.I oldpath
already has the maximum number of links to it.
For example, on an
-.BR ext4 (5)
+.MR ext4 5
filesystem that does not employ the
.I dir_index
feature, the limit on the number of hard links to a file is 65,000; on
-.BR btrfs (5),
+.MR btrfs 5 ,
the limit is 65,535 links.
.TP
.B ENAMETOOLONG
@@ -242,13 +242,13 @@ The caller does not have permission to create a hard link to this file
(see the description of
.I /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks
in
-.BR proc (5)).
+.MR proc 5 ).
.TP
.B EPERM
.I oldpath
is marked immutable or append-only.
(See
-.BR ioctl_iflags (2).)
+.MR ioctl_iflags 2 .)
.TP
.B EROFS
The file is on a read-only filesystem.
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ open(path, O_TMPFILE | O_EXCL, mode);
.in
.IP
See
-.BR open (2).
+.MR open 2 .
.TP
.B ENOENT
An attempt was made to link to a
@@ -406,20 +406,20 @@ Hard links, as created by
.BR link (),
cannot span filesystems.
Use
-.BR symlink (2)
+.MR 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.
Use
-.BR stat (2)
+.MR stat 2
to find out if the link got created.
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR ln (1),
-.BR open (2),
-.BR rename (2),
-.BR stat (2),
-.BR symlink (2),
-.BR unlink (2),
-.BR path_resolution (7),
-.BR symlink (7)
+.MR ln 1 ,
+.MR open 2 ,
+.MR rename 2 ,
+.MR stat 2 ,
+.MR symlink 2 ,
+.MR unlink 2 ,
+.MR path_resolution 7 ,
+.MR symlink 7