X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fopen.texi;h=bb982cfaeff63c14754e1f3248bd8805b2a1a503;hb=ce85bc7be74fc265cf39d8c85024b2da44eeeb0c;hp=7a6d5fc767a9b7c8ca48a687e628804c7fb1c67f;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/open.texi b/doc/posix-functions/open.texi index 7a6d5fc76..bb982cfae 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/open.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/open.texi @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ Gnulib module: open Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item +This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash +and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file, on some platforms: +HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9. +@item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename. @end itemize