LDP: Update original to LDP v3.75

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man2 / symlink.2

diff --git a/original/man2/symlink.2 b/original/man2/symlink.2
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--- a/original/man2/symlink.2
+++ b/original/man2/symlink.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" Modified 1997-01-31 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
 .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
-.TH SYMLINK 2 2014-05-05 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SYMLINK 2 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 symlink, symlinkat \- make a new name for a file
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -244,6 +244,19 @@ Deleting the name referred to by a symbolic link will actually delete the
 file (unless it also has other hard links).
 If this behavior is not desired, use
 .BR link (2).
+.SS Glibc notes
+On older kernels where
+.BR symlinkat ()
+is unavailable, the glibc wrapper function falls back to the use of
+.BR symlink (2).
+When
+.I linkpath
+is a relative pathname,
+glibc constructs a pathname based on the symbolic link in
+.IR /proc/self/fd
+that corresponds to the
+.IR newdirfd
+argument.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR ln (1),
 .BR lchown (2),
@@ -256,7 +269,7 @@ If this behavior is not desired, use
 .BR path_resolution (7),
 .BR symlink (7)
 .SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.68 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.75 of the Linux
 .I man-pages
 project.
 A description of the project,