Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 09:50:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Is symlink() POSIX or not?
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On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Laurynas Biveinis wrote:

> symlink.txh says that it is not ANSI, not POSIX,
> however its sources live in src/libc/posix/unistd,
> not src/libc/compat/unistd.

My references clearly say that symlinks is not a Posix feature.

The fact that symlink.c is under posix is probably due to some
oversight, but the subdirectory is not a good evidence whether a
function is Posix or not (e.g., we have some non-Posix functions in
posix/sys/stat).  The place in the header files is a much better
evidence.

Personally, I don't think it's justified to move the files under
compat at this stage.