Bob Proulx wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> > Interestingly I notice that solaris for example allows a NULL old_path.
>>
>> That Solaris behavior is contrary to POSIX 2008
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/symlink.html
>
> Where does it say this? I read it through in detail but I didn't see
> that it required a diagnostic to be emitted in the case that value is
> am empty string. What did I miss?
Oh! You're right. Thanks for pointing that out.
It's only the source (2nd argument) to symlink that may not
be the empty string.
ERRORS
These functions shall fail if:
[EACCES]
...
[ENOENT]
A component of path2 does not name an existing file or path2 is
an empty string.
There is no restriction on "path1".
