X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fopenat.texi;h=00427670f4040d0e021ff5824ccfcda6c044b8fe;hb=beae0bdcf7fe30f2415c16f6b8c1368d469e519c;hp=5a99e0cdbba47a217be0c88c5cff4c08ffb61662;hpb=0460b26278c909bd983c2c8938e72e4cc88e4084;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi index 5a99e0cdb..00427670f 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ @section @code{openat} @findex openat -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/openat.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/openat.html} Gnulib module: openat @@ -10,9 +10,17 @@ 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, Mac OS 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{open} may not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@item +This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash +and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file or a file that is not a +directory, on some platforms: +Solaris 9. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: