9.501 link

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/link.html

Gnulib module: link

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
• This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on some platforms: FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x.
• When the second argument is a dangling symlink, some platforms follow that link and create the destination rather than failing: IRIX 6.5.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• When the first argument is a symlink, some platforms create a hard-link to what the symlink referenced, rather than to the symlink itself. Use ‘linkat’ to force a particular behavior.