X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fopendir.texi;h=661790cc4942afe5b40554e740fe5d00e88de40b;hb=5835ba726cff8bff6b8d83d407d72ab723dbcece;hp=b86734341bb066653aae94213b7c3d391897564d;hpb=80fc442c212439b65a2fba722b17529aba2aa1ae;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/opendir.texi b/doc/posix-functions/opendir.texi index b86734341..661790cc4 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/opendir.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/opendir.texi @@ -4,12 +4,20 @@ POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/opendir.html} -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: opendir Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +MSVC 9. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not +work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB. Also, on platforms +where @code{ino_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may report inode numbers +incorrectly. The fix is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. @end itemize