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| author | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-17 17:08:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> | 2023-03-30 15:14:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4131356cdab8d37fc395ca5466a0401c8573380c (patch) | |
| tree | 8c4c6f1c3172358b735b481cbbfdd9cc04b00ed9 /man2/symlink.2 | |
| parent | fd00f831b52d61a91d59cb3b46182869145d9700 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-4131356cdab8.tar.gz | |
man*/, man-pages.7: VERSIONS, STANDARDS, HISTORY: Reorganize sections
- Add a new HISTORY section that covers the history of an API, both
regarding implementations and regarding old standards. This was
previously covered in VERSIONS, and in some cases in STANDARDS.
- Repurpose VERSIONS to cover differing implementations in _current_
systems.
- STANDARDS is reduced to only cover current versions of standards.
That basically means only C11 (C99 has been superseeded by C11; C17
is just a bugfix of C11, so not really a new version), and
POSIX.1-2008 (*-2001 was superseeded by *-2008; *-2017 was just a
bugfix for *-2008). The section also mentions for example 'Linux',
'GNU' or 'BSD' when a non-standard API is Linux- or GNU-only or if
it's (de-facto) standard in the BSDs.
- In some cases content that should go into one of these sections was
in NOTES. Move it from there to where it corresponds.
- In the SYNOPSIS, I added [[deprecated]] in some functions that I
found are deprecated by the relevant standards.
- A few other related changes...
Cc: Oskari Pirhonen <xxc3ncoredxx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'man2/symlink.2')
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/symlink.2 | 35 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/man2/symlink.2 b/man2/symlink.2 index 13b2ed1ccd..4475bcb90a 100644 --- a/man2/symlink.2 +++ b/man2/symlink.2 @@ -214,29 +214,21 @@ does not support the creation of symbolic links. .B EROFS .I linkpath is on a read-only filesystem. -.SH VERSIONS -.BR symlinkat () -was added in Linux 2.6.16; -library support was added in glibc 2.4. .SH STANDARDS -.BR symlink (): -SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008. +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +.TP +.BR symlink () +SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. .\" SVr4 documents additional error codes EDQUOT and ENOSYS. .\" See .\" .BR open (2) .\" re multiple files with the same name, and NFS. -.PP -.BR symlinkat (): +.TP +.BR symlinkat () POSIX.1-2008. -.SH NOTES -No checking of -.I target -is done. -.PP -Deleting the name referred to by a symbolic link will actually delete the -file (unless it also has other hard links). -If this behavior is not desired, use -.BR link (2). +Linux 2.6.16, +glibc 2.4. .SS glibc notes On older kernels where .BR symlinkat () @@ -250,6 +242,15 @@ glibc constructs a pathname based on the symbolic link in that corresponds to the .I newdirfd argument. +.SH NOTES +No checking of +.I target +is done. +.PP +Deleting the name referred to by a symbolic link will actually delete the +file (unless it also has other hard links). +If this behavior is not desired, use +.BR link (2). .SH SEE ALSO .BR ln (1), .BR namei (1), |