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@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dup2.html}
-Gnulib module: dup2
+Gnulib module: dup2 or dup2-obsolete
-Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
+Portability problems fixed by either Gnulib module @code{dup2} or @code{dup2-obsolete}:
@itemize
@item
This function always returns 0 for success on some platforms:
@@ -34,7 +34,10 @@ This function returns @code{EMFILE} instead of @code{EBADF} for
extremely large targets, which interferes with using
@code{dup2(fd,fd)==fd)} as the minimal @code{EBADF} filter:
FreeBSD 6.1, Cygwin 1.5.
+@end itemize
+Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{dup2-obsolete}:
+@itemize
@item
This function is missing on some older platforms.
@end itemize