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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2023-04-24 19:48:47 +0200
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2023-04-24 19:48:47 +0200
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ftell, ftello: Fix recognition of pipes on native Windows.
* m4/lseek.m4 (gl_FUNC_LSEEK): Update comment. * m4/ftello.m4 (gl_FUNC_FTELLO): On native Windows, set REPLACE_FTELLO=1 always. * doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi: Mention the behaviour on pipes. * doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi: Likewise. * doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi: Likewise.
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@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ This function, when invoked after @code{ungetc}, throws away the @code{ungetc}
buffer, changes the stream's file position, and returns the wrong position on
some platforms:
macOS 10.15 and newer.
+@item
+This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms:
+mingw 10.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: