xref: /titanic_44/usr/src/lib/libc/port/sys/link.c (revision bde3d612a7c090234c60e6e4578821237a5db135)
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21 
22 /*
23  * Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
24  */
25 
26 #include "lint.h"
27 #include <unistd.h>
28 #include <fcntl.h>
29 #include <sys/syscall.h>
30 
31 extern	int __xpg4; /* defined in port/gen/xpg4.c; 0 if not xpg4/xpg4v2 */
32 
33 int
34 linkat(int fd1, const char *path1, int fd2, const char *path2, int flag)
35 {
36 	return (syscall(SYS_linkat, fd1, path1, fd2, path2, flag));
37 }
38 
39 #pragma	weak _link = link
40 int
41 link(const char *path1, const char *path2)
42 {
43 	/*
44 	 * XPG4v2 link() requires that the link count of a symbolic
45 	 * link target be updated rather than the link itself.  This
46 	 * matches SunOS 4.x and other BSD based implementations.
47 	 * However, the SVR4 merge apparently introduced the change
48 	 * that allowed link(src, dest) when "src" was a symbolic link,
49 	 * to create "dest" as a hard link to "src".  Hence, the link
50 	 * count of the symbolic link is updated rather than the target
51 	 * of the symbolic link. This latter behavior remains for
52 	 * non-XPG4 based environments. For a more detailed discussion,
53 	 * see bug 1256170.
54 	 */
55 	if (__xpg4 != 0)
56 		return (linkat(AT_FDCWD, path1, AT_FDCWD, path2,
57 		    AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW));
58 
59 #if defined(_RETAIN_OLD_SYSCALLS)
60 	return (syscall(SYS_link, path1, path2));
61 #else
62 	return (linkat(AT_FDCWD, path1, AT_FDCWD, path2, 0));
63 #endif
64 }
65