Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
+On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{freopen} may not work
+correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
+@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not
recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename.
@end itemize