stat: Bypass buggy override in mingw64.

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

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
index 18303f6..33af95d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
@@ -15,21 +15,21 @@ report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.
 @item
 On some platforms, @code{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead
 of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
-FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9.
+FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9, mingw64.
 @item
 On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give
 different results:
-mingw.
+mingw, MSVC 9.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+@xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.
+@item
 Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when
 @code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate.
 @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
 portably replace @code{stat} via an object-like macro.  Therefore,
 expressions such as @code{(islnk ? lstat : stat) (name, buf)} are not