diff -r 9a96efc4af8a -r 31eb145b50b6 mercurial/util.py
--- a/mercurial/util.py	Tue Apr 05 16:55:47 2011 +0800
+++ b/mercurial/util.py	Tue Apr 05 11:55:52 2011 +0200
@@ -683,18 +683,6 @@
 
     return ''.join(result)
 
-def checklink(path):
-    """check whether the given path is on a symlink-capable filesystem"""
-    # mktemp is not racy because symlink creation will fail if the
-    # file already exists
-    name = tempfile.mktemp(dir=path, prefix='hg-checklink-')
-    try:
-        os.symlink(".", name)
-        os.unlink(name)
-        return True
-    except (OSError, AttributeError):
-        return False
-
 def checknlink(testfile):
     '''check whether hardlink count reporting works properly'''