LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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

diff --git a/original/man2/unlink.2 b/original/man2/unlink.2
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--- a/original/man2/unlink.2
+++ b/original/man2/unlink.2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 .\" Modified 2001-05-17 by aeb
 .\" Modified 2004-06-23 by Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
 .\"
-.TH UNLINK 2 2014-02-21 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH UNLINK 2 2014-08-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 unlink, unlinkat \- delete a name and possibly the file it refers to
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -278,6 +278,22 @@ SVr4, 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
 
 .BR unlinkat ():
 POSIX.1-2008.
+.SH NOTES
+.SS Glibc notes
+On older kernels where
+.BR unlinkat ()
+is unavailable, the glibc wrapper function falls back to the use of
+.BR unlink (2)
+or
+.BR rmdir (2).
+When
+.I pathname
+is a relative pathname,
+glibc constructs a pathname based on the symbolic link in
+.IR /proc/self/fd
+that corresponds to the
+.IR dirfd
+argument.
 .SH BUGS
 Infelicities in the protocol underlying NFS can cause the unexpected
 disappearance of files which are still being used.
@@ -294,10 +310,11 @@ disappearance of files which are still being used.
 .BR path_resolution (7),
 .BR symlink (7)
 .SH COLOPHON
-This page is part of release 3.64 of the Linux
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
 .I man-pages
 project.
 A description of the project,
-and information about reporting bugs,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
 can be found at
 \%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.