X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fposix-functions%2Frecvfrom.texi;h=c3765488004432cd2485a673f258ff7b21ec9863;hb=1ab17d9f64900d991443e712f636c9ef6ad543b2;hp=fdb54a6ab055c6a62cdc562f036a8d227ff8e260;hpb=2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b;p=gnulib.git diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi b/doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi index fdb54a6ab..c37654880 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/recvfrom.texi @@ -2,20 +2,25 @@ @section @code{recvfrom} @findex recvfrom -POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/recvfrom.html} +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/recvfrom.html} -Gnulib module: --- +Gnulib module: recvfrom Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function has the return type @code{int} instead of @code{ssize_t} +on some platforms: +OSF/1 5.1. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), error codes for +@code{recvfrom} are not placed in @code{errno}, and +@code{WSAGetLastError} must be used instead. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some platforms: -mingw. -@item Some platforms don't have a @code{socklen_t} type; in this case this function's sixth argument type is @samp{int *}. @end itemize