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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-24 19:48:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2023-04-24 19:48:47 +0200 |
| commit | c254399aae1fb663ff9d3038aa4725213afc2cc3 (patch) | |
| tree | 6acd0c1e4371284a5d8099bc8c93995bd618f6fe /doc | |
| parent | ca5545a273810bb759fb854f70b8d228b6094ff0 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-c254399aae1fb663ff9d3038aa4725213afc2cc3.tar.gz | |
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.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi | 3 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi index 89e3acd58f..4a0051ea23 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/fgetpos.texi @@ -19,4 +19,7 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @code{fflush}, @code{ftell}, @code{ftello}, @code{fgetpos} behave incorrectly on input streams that are opened in @code{O_TEXT} mode and whose contents contains Unix line terminators (LF), on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 14. +@item +This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: +mingw 10. @end itemize diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi b/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi index 5a15dee8ea..5d79f5576b 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/ftell.texi @@ -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: diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi b/doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi index ded1df0c11..4e9427015c 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/ftello.texi @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ macOS 10.15 and newer. @item This function fails on seekable stdin, stdout, and stderr: cygwin <= 1.5.24. @item +This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: +mingw 10. +@item On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{ftello} does not work correctly with files 2 GiB and larger. @xref{Large File Support}. @end itemize |