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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchownat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchownat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b5661f --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fchownat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +@node fchownat +@section @code{fchownat} +@findex fchownat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchownat.html} + +Gnulib module: fchownat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +Some platforms fail to detect trailing slash on non-directories, as in +@code{fchown(dir,"link-to-file/",uid,gid,flag)}: +Solaris 9. +@item +Some platforms mistakenly dereference symlinks when using +@code{AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW}: +Linux kernel 2.6.17. +@item +This function does not fail for an empty filename on some platforms: +Linux with glibc < 2.11. +@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, 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. Also, the replacement may fail to change +symlinks if @code{lchown} is unsupported, or fail altogether if +@code{chown} is unsupported. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize |