X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fglibc-functions%2Fopenpty.texi;h=8fc96203bc1226412da8b000263298eb70636e14;hb=b65bfcd7ba0be84de3d96f22103103f21679a721;hp=5eb57c353ae0d0df85b0103dd6ddca684a4f5255;hpb=8e7bc4d9d435c2d18be77134896aa823733816a0;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/openpty.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/openpty.texi index 5eb57c353..8fc96203b 100644 --- a/doc/glibc-functions/openpty.texi +++ b/doc/glibc-functions/openpty.texi @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Gnulib module: openpty Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +This function is missing on some platforms: +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 11 2010-11. +@item One some systems (at least including Cygwin, Interix, OSF/1 4 and 5, and Mac OS X) linking with @code{-lutil} is not required. @item @@ -25,6 +28,11 @@ FreeBSD, Cygwin 1.7.1. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -On some systems (at least including Solaris and HP-UX) the function is -missing. +This function is missing on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +After a successful call to @code{openpty}, the application needs to close +the master's file descriptor before closing the slave's file descriptor, +otherwise the process may hang in a state where it cannot be killed, on +some platforms: MacOS X 10.4.11. @end itemize