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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2017-09-02 13:14:00 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2017-09-02 13:23:15 +0200
commit5f7d5f2b78d54258e8e2a41596bba0e123c75de4 (patch)
tree6096d783651c24d20999c60e14a1173eae241699
parent5db93013208b0d041e1a8cd8d3838e721db3cf31 (diff)
downloadgnulib-5f7d5f2b78d54258e8e2a41596bba0e123c75de4.tar.gz
dirent: Update doc.
* doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi: More concrete list of platforms.
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog7
-rw-r--r--doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi15
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b5c3430ef3..b67d217995 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2017-09-02 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+ dirent: Update doc.
+ * doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi: More concrete list of platforms.
+
2017-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
glob: fix getpwnam_r errno typo
@@ -9,6 +14,8 @@
* lib/glob.c (glob) [!HAVE_GETPWNAM_R && !_LIBC]:
Fix recently-introduced typo.
+2017-09-02 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
+
glob: don't save and restore errno unnecessarily
* lib/glob.c (glob): Don't save and restore errno
merely because we have getpwnam_r.
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
index 0a19fd3c2a..eab30ca0ff 100644
--- a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
The type @code{ino_t} is missing on some platforms:
-glibc 2.8 and others.
+glibc 2.23 and others.
+
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@@ -21,8 +22,8 @@ MSVC 14.
@item
Although many systems define a @code{struct dirent} member named
@code{d_type} and directory entry type macros like @code{DT_DIR} and
-@code{DT_LINK}, some do not:
-AIX 7.2, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11, probably others.
+@code{DT_LNK}, some do not:
+Minix 3.1.8, AIX 7.2, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2011-11, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
@item
On systems with @code{d_type}, not every filesystem supports
@@ -30,12 +31,16 @@ On systems with @code{d_type}, not every filesystem supports
@item
Some systems define a @code{struct dirent} member named @code{d_namlen}
-containing the string length of @code{d_name}, but others do not.
+containing the string length of @code{d_name}, but others do not:
+glibc 2.23 on Linux, Minix 3.1.8, Solaris 11 2011-11, Cygwin, BeOS.
+All of these, except Cygwin, have a member @code{d_reclen} instead,
+that has a different semantics.
@item
Some systems define a @code{struct dirent} member named @code{d_off}
containing a magic cookie suitable as an argument to @code{seekdir},
-but others do not.
+but others do not:
+glibc 2.23 on Hurd, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
@item
Some systems define a @code{struct dirent} member named