X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffdopendir.texi;h=fae7bb751a7e178f537e45ae7ae5a74d2eab3f5d;hb=fc80165c92e8b92da6e88e4fdb9c472125124fa0;hp=be520c5d518789abdbdaac63d9bf58ddf1ccde24;hpb=17f87c3231d8808b8e873126abf15e6e8b9a0e67;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi index be520c5d5..fae7bb751 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fdopendir.texi @@ -4,15 +4,24 @@ POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fdopendir.html} -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: fdopendir 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, 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. Also, the replacement does not guarantee +that @samp{dirfd(fdopendir(n))==n} (dirfd might fail, or return a +different file descriptor than n). +@item +This function does not reject non-directory file descriptors on some +platforms: +GNU/Hurd. @end itemize Portability problems not 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, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS. @end itemize