X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffreopen.texi;h=c8b60c2d9ec5ce1575849fe461bb70b491cebf96;hb=54b5ce0e1a4f6a4af37f970e45e6e173e5b0a1c6;hp=ccb25eace077c4eb5c7e5492387c384970b72996;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi b/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi index ccb25eace..c8b60c2d9 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ @section @code{freopen} @findex freopen -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/freopen.html} +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/freopen.html} Gnulib module: freopen @@ -18,4 +18,14 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno} upon failure. +@item +This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash +and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file or a file that is not a +directory, on some platforms: +HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9, Irix 5.3. +@item +Applications should not assume that @code{fileno(f)} will be the same +before and after a call to @code{freopen(name,mode,f)}. However, the +module freopen-safer can at least protect @code{stdin}, @code{stdout}, +and @code{stderr}. @end itemize