Add dependencies to the 'largefile' module.

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

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi
index dbe31f8..8ffa66f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 @section @code{lstat}
 @findex lstat
 
-POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html}
+POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lstat.html}
 
 Gnulib module: lstat
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not
+correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
+(Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
+@item
 For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't
 dereference the argument:
 Solaris 9.
@@ -24,10 +28,6 @@ On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
-On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not
-correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.  The fix
-is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
-@item
 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0.
 @item
 Because of the definition of @code{struct stat}, it is not possible to
@@ -35,4 +35,8 @@ portably replace @code{stat} via an object-like macro.  Therefore,
 expressions such as @code{(islnk ? lstat : stat) (name, buf)} are not
 portable, and should instead be written @code{islnk ? lstat (name,
 buf) : stat (name, buf)}.
+@item
+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.
 @end itemize