X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Flchown.texi;h=595a05ce9527f73088f085eee7f15ec32f2181c3;hb=fbe6ced5d2fdadeeea4194725d05a52cf3b5ebd7;hp=368c3adc9a3a01ab84719e407d007f35884aa2b6;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi b/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi index 368c3adc9..595a05ce9 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/lchown.texi @@ -2,14 +2,25 @@ @section @code{lchown} @findex lchown -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lchown.html} +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/lchown.html} Gnulib module: lchown Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some platforms: +Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in +@code{lchown("link-to-file/",uid,gid)}: +FreeBSD 7.2, Solaris 9. +@item +Some platforms fail to update the change time when at least one +argument was not -1, but no ownership changes resulted. However, +without @code{lchmod}, the replacement only fixes this for non-symlinks: +OpenBSD 4.0. +@item +This function is missing on some platforms; however, the replacement +fails on symlinks if @code{chown} is supported, and fails altogether +with @code{ENOSYS} otherwise: MacOS X 10.3, mingw, BeOS. @end itemize