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diff --git a/man2/link.2 b/man2/link.2 index 0725cd2b85..492a71aa42 100644 --- a/man2/link.2 +++ b/man2/link.2 @@ -382,6 +382,26 @@ is dereferenced if it is a symbolic link. For precise control over the treatment of symbolic links when creating a link, use .BR linkat (2). +.SS Glibc notes +On older kernels where +.BR linkat () +is unavailable, the glibc wrapper function falls back to the use of +.BR link (), +unless the +.B AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW +is specified. +When +.I oldpath +and +.I newpath +are relative pathnames, +glibc constructs pathnames based on the symbolic links in +.IR /proc/self/fd +that correspond to the +.I olddirfd +and +.IR newdirfd +arguments. .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. |