doc: Improve doc about gl_EARLY.

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

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi b/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi
index ebe8c50..49f6849 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
 This function is missing on some platforms:
-mingw.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
 @item
 This function is declared in @code{<unistd.h>} instead of @code{<stdlib.h>}
 on some platforms:
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ On some platforms (HP-UX 10.20, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.5.1), mkstemp has a silly
 limit that it can create no more than 26 files from a given template.  On
 OSF/1 4.0f, it can create only 32 files per process.
 @item
+On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{mkstemp} may not work
+correctly to create files larger than 2 GB.  (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.)
+@item
 On some older platforms, @code{mkstemp} can create a world or group
 writable or readable file, if you haven't set the process umask to
 077.  This is a security risk.