Pablo Galindo Salgado <pablog...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> That said, since os.link() hasn't been working as advertised, this change 
> needs to be accompanied by changing the default value of follow_symlinks to 
> False. That will retain the status quo behavior for most systems, except in 
> the rare case that src_dir_fd or dst_dir_fd is used. If it isn't changed to 
> False, then suddenly os.link() calls will start following symlinks, whereas 
> prior to the change they did not because link() was being called instead of 
> linkat(). 


Isn't that a backwards-incompatible change?

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