X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffstatat.texi;h=aaf84928da6693f61607cff75f9d758f86dfb504;hb=9f5e100923da93c9e470227db4aa4ac1a2e2c019;hp=6c55fc366005d4883c1ecdd4b1d8117cdb241bb5;hpb=4ef8b64903e0cdbac1e7430491cd1e78ff2fdbf8;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi index 6c55fc366..aaf84928d 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi @@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, 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, 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. @@ -26,10 +30,6 @@ Solaris 9. Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @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. The fix is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. -@item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0. @item On some file systems, @code{st_size} contains bogus information for