POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html}
-Gnulib module: openat
+Gnulib module: fstatat
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
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This function is missing on some platforms:
glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8,
-AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe.
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On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fstatat} may
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
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-On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0.
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-On some file systems, @code{st_size} contains bogus information for
-symlinks; use the gnulib module areadlink-with-size for a better way
-to get symlink contents.
+@xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.
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