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 12.1 `link': Make a hard link via the link syscall
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 `link' creates a single hard link at a time.  It is a minimalist
 interface to the system-provided `link' function.   Hard Links
 (libc)Hard Links.  It avoids the bells and whistles of the more
 commonly-used `ln' command ( ln invocation).  Synopsis:
 
      link FILENAME LINKNAME
 
    FILENAME must specify an existing file, and LINKNAME must specify a
 nonexistent entry in an existing directory.  `link' simply calls `link
 (FILENAME, LINKNAME)' to create the link.
 
    On a GNU system, this command acts like `ln --directory
 --no-target-directory FILENAME LINKNAME'.  However, the `--directory'
 and `--no-target-directory' options are not specified by POSIX, and the
 `link' command is more portable in practice.
 
    If FILENAME is a symbolic link, it is unspecified whether LINKNAME
 will be a hard link to the symbolic link or to the target of the
 symbolic link.  Use `ln -P' or `ln -L' to specify which behavior is
 desired.
 
    An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value
 indicates failure.
 

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