X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Fperror.texi;h=9fa07981d28c901b4524918a4b6f1c6df9daea10;hb=2408f02086a20c0a02241cd4a1cf11f126a95fe3;hp=dc612172220bcd2131cd3a8465822670918bd908;hpb=80fc442c212439b65a2fba722b17529aba2aa1ae;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi b/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi index dc6121722..9fa07981d 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi @@ -11,9 +11,28 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @item This function does not support the error values that are specified by POSIX but not defined by the system, on some platforms: -OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw. +OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +This function treats @code{errno} of 0 like failure, although POSIX +requires that the message declare it as a success, on some platforms: +FreeBSD 8.2, OpenBSD 4.7, MacOS X 10.5. +@item +This function clobbers the @code{strerror} buffer on some platforms: +Cygwin 1.7.9. +@item +This function fails to print a useful a string for out-of-range integers on +some platforms: +HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 8. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +POSIX requires that this function set the stream error bit (detected +by @code{ferror}) on write failure, but not all platforms do this: +glibc 2.13, cygwin 1.7.9. +@item +POSIX requires that this function not alter stream orientation, but +the gnulib replacement locks in byte orientation and fails on wide +character streams. @end itemize