Can you change what a symlink points to after it is created?

Question

Does any operating system provide a mechanism (system call — not command line program) to change the pathname referenced by a symbolic link (symlink) — other than by unlinki

Answer 1

Just in case it helps: there is a way to edit a symlink with midnight commander (mc). The menu command is (in French on my mc interface):

Fichier / Éditer le lien symbolique

which may be translated to:

File / Edit symbolic link

The shortcut is C-x C-s

Maybe it internally uses the ln --force command, I don't know.

Now, I'm trying to find a way to edit a whole lot of symlinks at once (that's how I arrived here).