fdopendir: split into its own module

[gnulib.git] / doc / posix-functions / fdopendir.texi

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi
index 1d9827c..20db12c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdopendir.html}
 
-Gnulib module: openat
+Gnulib module: fdopendir
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
@@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 This function is missing on some platforms:
 glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX
 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
-But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe.
+But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and
+is not multithread-safe.  Also, the replacement does not guarantee
+that @samp{dirfd(fdopendir(n))==n} (dirfd might fail, or return a
+different file descriptor than n).
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: