> Any hints which groups? I had the impression that Nick was a "Google Android
> engineer"?
>

He is, but right now everyone is working on what they consider a top priority 
for them and is likely
busy with M related work. Perhaps it would be best to find someone that would 
consider this a top
priority in another group. Likely, the NDK google group.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-ndk
 
> > Also, as a possible work around, would soft links work for you?
> 
> Nope. And apart from the fact that it wouldn't work for me, it seems mildly 
> crazy
> to me to randomly disable well-established functionality "for security 
> reasons"
> and to then expect people to work around the breakage ...
> after all, experience shows that code full of platform-specific workarounds 
> tends
> to be so much more reliable and secure than a unified standard-conforming
> portable codebase! /s

As was said before, Android has never guaranteed a native interface with the 
exception
of the (relatively) new NDK. I don't know if hardlinks was ever part of the 
Android NDK
stable API. I never really make apps. However, it is defined within the headers 
distributed
as part of the NDK (see below). Again, I would hit the NDK group. If they 
determine a need,
changes to installd and selinux would likely need to be made.

Also, as an aside, the way you word things might be affecting your level of 
support.
Choose your words more carefully.

android-ndk-r10e$ find . -name unistd.h | xargs grep 'link(const char \*, 
const\ char \*)' | cut -d: -f1-1 | sort | uniq
./platforms/android-12/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-12/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-12/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-13/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-13/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-13/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-14/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-14/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-14/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-15/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-15/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-15/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-16/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-16/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-16/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-17/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-17/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-17/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-18/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-18/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-18/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-19/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-19/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-19/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-3/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-4/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-5/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-8/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-9/arch-arm/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-9/arch-mips/usr/include/unistd.h
./platforms/android-9/arch-x86/usr/include/unistd.h

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