symlink: detect FreeBSD bug

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

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
index a7011ed..ef09740 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Gnulib module: stat
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+On some platforms, @code{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead
+of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}.
+FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9.
+@item
 On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give
 different results:
 mingw.