Jon Ribbens wrote: > On 2017-01-30, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> Jon Ribbens wrote: >>> A lot of the functions of the 'os' module do nothing but call the >>> underlying OS system call with the same name. It would not only be >>> redundant to copy the OS documentation into the Python documentation, >>> it would be misleading and wrong, because of course the behaviour may >>> vary slightly from OS to OS. >> >> However, the current Python version of link() is sufficiently different >> from >><https://linux.die.net/man/2/link>, say, to warrant its own documentation. > > What are you referring to here? As far as I can see, the current > Python implementation of link() just calls the underlying OS call > directly.
The current signature differs from that of link() os.link(src, dst, *, src_dir_fd=None, dst_dir_fd=None, follow_symlinks=True) but it looks like you are right in so far as link() is still called by default: if ((src_dir_fd != DEFAULT_DIR_FD) || (dst_dir_fd != DEFAULT_DIR_FD) || (!follow_symlinks)) result = linkat(src_dir_fd, src->narrow, dst_dir_fd, dst->narrow, follow_symlinks ? AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW : 0); else #endif /* HAVE_LINKAT */ result = link(src->narrow, dst->narrow); -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list