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10.69.84 symlink ¶

POSIX specification:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/symlink.html

Gnulib module: symlink

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• On some systems, symlink(value,"name/") mistakenly creates a symlink: macOS 14, FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
• This function is missing on some platforms; however, the replacement always fails with EPERM: mingw, MSVC 14.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• Some file systems do not support symbolic links.
• If the target is the empty string, this function can create an empty symbolic link instead of failing with ENOENT as GNU/Linux does: FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.8, Solaris 11.4. On Solaris, the empty symbolic link "" resolves like "." does; on the other operating systems, resolution fails with ENOENT.