X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Ffwrite.texi;h=73b5427ed5fad5be21af60a4bc97f385d4812ed3;hb=49c136f53f6b22e91f2bb4c636e81e5930613d04;hp=d9defec9c85a1d3f3f90fa616f30c1fccb5cf2d4;hpb=fd9f58dc85f6a45cd244c78a54ad4610c01dbb15;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fwrite.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fwrite.texi index d9defec9c..73b5427ed 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fwrite.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fwrite.texi @@ -4,14 +4,23 @@ POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fwrite.html} -Gnulib module: stdio, sigpipe +Gnulib module: stdio, nonblocking, sigpipe -Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{stdio}, together with module @code{nonblocking}: +@itemize +@item +When writing to a non-blocking pipe whose buffer is full, this function fails +with @code{errno} being set to @code{ENOSPC} instead of @code{EAGAIN} on some +platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{stdio}, together with module @code{sigpipe}: @itemize @item When writing to a pipe with no readers, this function fails, instead of obeying the current @code{SIGPIPE} handler, on some platforms: -mingw. +mingw, MSVC 9. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @@ -19,4 +28,14 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno} upon failure. +@item +On some platforms, this function does not set @code{errno} or the +stream error indicator on attempts to write to a read-only stream: +Cygwin 1.7.9. +@item +This function crashes if the stream's file descriptor has already been +closed, if @code{MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING} is +@code{HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING} or @code{SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING}, +on some platforms: +MSVC 9. @end itemize