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diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/readdir_r.texi b/doc/posix-functions/readdir_r.texi index 5a7391bfd6..9a175848e8 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/readdir_r.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/readdir_r.texi @@ -14,6 +14,12 @@ in glibc. Portable applications should use @code{readdir}. @item This function has an incompatible declaration on some platforms: Solaris 11.4 (when @code{_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS} is not defined). +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not +work correctly on huge directories 2 GiB and larger. Also, on platforms +where @code{ino_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may report inode numbers +incorrectly. This can occur with file systems such as XFS (typically on +large disks) and NFS@. @xref{Large File Support}. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @@ -21,10 +27,4 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @item This function is missing on some platforms: Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 14. -@item -On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may not -work correctly on huge directories larger than 2 GB@. Also, on platforms -where @code{ino_t} is a 32-bit type, this function may report inode numbers -incorrectly. This can occur with file systems such as XFS (typically on -large disks) and NFS@. The fix is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. @end itemize |