X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffstatat.texi;h=8b8604f46f1bc5a0b45f73ead59622766da98311;hb=f40e1532834adc754cac576a07d43b9556f89a97;hp=4b9fcbc4bb703dfeaa558c65e298b7b6b258c8c3;hpb=0460b26278c909bd983c2c8938e72e4cc88e4084;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi index 4b9fcbc4b..8b8604f46 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi @@ -2,19 +2,33 @@ @section @code{fstatat} @findex fstatat -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html} -Gnulib module: openat +Gnulib module: fstatat 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. +glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fstatat} may +not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 +GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@item +On some platforms, @code{fstatat(fd,"file/",buf,flag)} succeeds instead of +failing with @code{ENOTDIR}. +Solaris 9. +@item +For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't +dereference the argument: +Solaris 9. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +@xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}. @end itemize