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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-18 15:01:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-18 15:01:22 +0200 |
| commit | b397f58b1ccaf507a9175f6d881758a0f23bc973 (patch) | |
| tree | 1cfc7f381482181f330784cbc10ae0733bdf9723 /doc | |
| parent | 38489e5cfd83f49b21b7d3d27b1cb405c8df28b4 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-b397f58b1ccaf507a9175f6d881758a0f23bc973.tar.gz | |
doc: Mention a Cygwin 3.4.6 bug.
* doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi: Mention a readlinkat bug on
Cygwin < 3.4.7.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi index 2cd2e7be5b..96ae7ec67a 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi @@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ non-directory's name concatenated to @file{/}, it sets @code{errno} to @code{EINVAL}: AIX 7.2. @item +When this function is called on an empty file name, it fails with error +@code{EBADF} instead of @code{ENOENT}: +@c https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-April/253510.html +Cygwin 3.4.6. +@item Symlink contents do not always have a trailing null byte, and there is no indication if symlink contents were truncated if the return value matches the length. Furthermore, |