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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2021-01-20 09:14:18 +0100 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2021-01-20 09:21:19 +0100 |
| commit | 77ca5f1df13067a34c36438635b6f97fc7f49806 (patch) | |
| tree | 6d6f2c3cc8e96b4b154f136c86a45725579e7084 /doc | |
| parent | fb0e2ad380d980bd9dcd88da7c748dabb532c809 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-77ca5f1df13067a34c36438635b6f97fc7f49806.tar.gz | |
canonicalize-lgpl: Work around a Cygwin bug.
* m4/canonicalize.m4 (gl_FUNC_REALPATH_WORKS): Test for lstat. Add a
test case that involves a symbolic link to an existing file.
* doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi: Mention the Cygwin bug.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi b/doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi index a5b7c1d1ae..dbeed3d795 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/realpath.texi @@ -24,9 +24,9 @@ This function fails to detect trailing slashes on non-directories on some platforms: glibc 2.3.5, Mac OS X 10.13, OpenBSD 6.0. @item -This function fails to recognize non-directories followed @samp{..} on -some platforms: -cygwin. +This function fails to recognize non-directories or symlinks to non-directories +followed by @samp{..} on some platforms: +Cygwin 2.9. @item This function misbehaves on consecutive slashes on some platforms: musl libc 1.2.2, AIX 7. |