On 10/31/2014 06:25 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > * m4/linkat.m4 (gl_FUNC_LINKAT): The compile check for AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW > was rundundant for a few reasons. It was present to support compiling > on new systems but running on the old narrow window of Linux 2.6.1[67]. > It setup and cleaned up test files which weren't actually used. > On non __linux__ it compile tested AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW, but that is > implicit in the following check.
Actually a better summary would be: linkat: don't unconditionally replace on GNU/Linux
