@item btowc
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item bzero
This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX. Better use @code{memset}
@item chown
When applied to a symbolic link, some implementations don't dereference
-the symlink, i.e. they behave like @code{lchown}.
+the symlink, i.e.@: they behave like @code{lchown}.
@item cproj
@itemx cprojf
@item fgetwc
@itemx fgetws
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item fnmatch
This function is broken in some version of Solaris or glibc.
@item fputwc
@itemx fputws
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item fread
On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@item fwide
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@code{fwide} is not guaranteed to be able to change a file stream's mode
to a different mode than the current one.
@item fwprintf
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item fwrite
On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@item fwscanf
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item gcvt
This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX. Better use @code{sprintf}
@item getwc
@itemx getwchar
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item getwd
The size of the buffer required for this function is not a compile-time
@itemx iswupper
@itemx iswxdigit
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item l64a
This function was not correctly implemented in glibc versions before 2.2.5.
@itemx mbstowcs
@itemx mbtowc
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item mkdir
When the argument ends in a slash, the function call fails on some systems.
@smallexample
#define mkdir ((int (*)()) _mkdir)
@end smallexample
+or
+@smallexample
+#define mkdir(path,mode) _mkdir (path)
+@end smallexample
@item mkstemp
On some systems (HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1), mkstemp has a silly
@item putwc
@itemx putwchar
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item readlink
When @code{readlink} is called on a directory: In the case of NFS mounted
-directories, Cygwin sets errno to @code{ENOENT} or @code{EIO} instead of
+directories, Cygwin sets @code{errno} to @code{ENOENT} or @code{EIO} instead of
@code{EINVAL}. To avoid this problem, check for a directory before calling
@code{readlink}.
When @code{readlink} is called on a file that is not a symbolic link:
-Irix may set errno to @code{ENXIO} instead of @code{EINVAL}. Cygwin may set
-errno to @code{EACCES} instead of {EINVAL}.
+Irix may set @code{errno} to @code{ENXIO} instead of @code{EINVAL}. Cygwin
+may set errno to @code{EACCES} instead of {EINVAL}.
@item realpath
This function does not allow to determine the required size of output buffer;
file descriptors.
On Linux, when some file descriptor refers to a regular file, @code{select}
-may fail, setting errno to @code{EBADF}.
+may fail, setting @code{errno} to @code{EBADF}.
@item setcontext
The effects of this call are system and compiler optimization dependent,
the contents of stack-allocated variables.
@item setenv
-In some versions of glibc (e.g. 2.3.3), @code{setenv} doesn't fail if the
+In some versions of glibc (e.g.@: 2.3.3), @code{setenv} doesn't fail if the
first argument contains a @samp{=} character.
@item setjmp
@item shmat
Attempts to @code{shmat} into a previously malloc-ed region fail on SunOS 4,
-with errno set to @code{EINVAL}, even if there is an @code{munmap} call in
-between.
+with @code{errno} set to @code{EINVAL}, even if there is an @code{munmap} call
+in between.
On Linux, the flag @code{SHM_REMAP} is needed in order to force @code{shmat}
to replace existing memory mappings in the specify address range. On other
@item signal
On System V systems, when the signal is triggered, the kernel uninstalls the
-handler (i.e. resets the signal's action to SIG_DFL) before invoking the
+handler (i.e.@: resets the signal's action to SIG_DFL) before invoking the
handler. This opens the door to race conditions: undesired things happen
if the signal is triggered twice and the signal handler was not quick enough
reinstalling itself as a handler. On BSD systems and glibc systems, on the
report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. The fix is to
use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
-Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets errno to @code{EACCES} when
+Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
@code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
@item strcasecmp
@item swprintf
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
characters are different.
@item tcdrain
-On some systems, @code{tcdrain} on a non-tty fails with errno set to
+On some systems, @code{tcdrain} on a non-tty fails with @code{errno} set to
@code{EINVAL} or, on MacOS X, also @code{EOPNOTSUPP} or @code{ENODEV}, rather
than @code{ENOTTY}.
@itemx towlower
@itemx towupper
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item ungetc
On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
@item ungetwc
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item unlink
-Removing an open file is unportable: On Unix this allows the programs that
+Removing an open file is non-portable: On Unix this allows the programs that
have the file already open to continue working with it; the file's storage
is only freed when the no process has the file open any more. On Windows,
the attempt to remove an open file fails.
@item vswprintf
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
On Windows, this function does not take a buffer size as second argument.
@itemx wcstoull
@itemx wcstoumax
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@item wcswcs
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
This function is marked as ``legacy'' in POSIX. Better use @code{wcsstr}
instead.
@itemx wprintf
@itemx wscanf
On Windows systems, @code{wchar_t} is a 16-bit type and therefore cannot
-accomodate all Unicode characters.
+accommodate all Unicode characters.
@end table
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