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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f15f675 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchmodat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +@node fchmodat +@section @code{fchmodat} +@findex fchmodat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchmodat.html} + +Gnulib module: fchmodat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +Some platforms do not allow changing the access bits on symbolic +links. POSIX states that @code{fchmodat(@dots{},AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)} +may fail with @code{EOPNOTSUPP} when called on a symlink, but some +platforms, as well as the gnulib replacement, fail for any use of +AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW even if the target was not a symlink: +glibc, Cygwin. +@end itemize |