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Subject: Re: unlinkat, symlinkat in wrong headers
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On Dec  8 00:05, Eric Blake wrote:
> Per POSIX, unlinkat should be declared in <unistd.h>; but cygwin only declares 
> it in <fcntl.h>:
> 
> $ echo '#include <unistd.h>' | gcc -E - | grep unlink
> int __attribute__((__cdecl__)) unlink (const char *__path );
> $ echo '#include <fcntl.h>' | gcc -E - | grep unlink
> extern int unlinkat (int, const char *, int);
> 
> Likewise, symlinkat should be in <unistd.h>; but cygwin only declares it in 
> <stdio.h>:

That's how it's defined in the Linux man pages.  Apparently I took that
for granted since the declarations are actually in unistd.h, contrary to
the man pages.  Dunno if we should really fix that for 1.7.1, but if you
can come up with a patch for newlib ASAP...


Corinna

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