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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2008-01-20 00:09:59 +0100 |
| commit | 2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b (patch) | |
| tree | ac9d11e47616b23a9c4feb5e5a19468008b8a770 /doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi | |
| parent | e606e4f86f58f108829f84777e565eebd0a467e7 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-2b6c08c775ae4e80b52aa41058ea5939f778b44b.tar.gz | |
Rename two directories: headers -> posix-headers, functions -> posix-functions.
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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e87dfa706d --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/posix-functions/lstat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +@node lstat +@section @code{lstat} +@findex lstat + +POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lstat.html} + +Gnulib module: lstat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +When the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't dereference the +argument. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so +@code{lstat} does not exist. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not +correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. The fix +is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. +@end itemize |