@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
@item
This function fails to reject trailing slashes on non-directories on
some platforms:
-FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x.
+FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin 1.5.x.
+@item
+When the second argument is a dangling symlink, some platforms follow
+that link and create the destination rather than failing:
+IRIX 6.5.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: