X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffchmodat.texi;h=3808f93573f81e7719f8b65fea9bdfc5a7a6fa9c;hb=a155c5688ab059c1c2fff7f132116b455ddb37ba;hp=1ba4e7d9dafc10456f04c08c78ed53e7aa4e7e39;hpb=f30bf56d92f02f64e226573f9f04e5dffd416aed;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi index 1ba4e7d9d..3808f9357 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi @@ -10,10 +10,18 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX +5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +Some platforms do not allow changing the access bits on symbolic +links. POSIX states that @code{fchmodat(@dots{},AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)} +may fail with @code{EOPNOTSUPP} when called on a symlink, but some +platforms, as well as the gnulib replacement, fail for any use of +AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW even if the target was not a symlink: +glibc, Cygwin. @end itemize