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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fflush.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fflush.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ba3e8e --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fflush.texi @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +@node fflush +@section @code{fflush} +@findex fflush + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fflush.html} + +Gnulib module: fflush + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +@code{fflush} followed by @code{fseek} or @code{fseeko}, applied to an input +stream, should have the effect of positioning the underlying file descriptor. +It doesn't do this on some platforms. +@item +@code{fflush} on an input stream changes the position of the stream to the +end of the previous buffer, on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +@code{fflush} on an input stream right after @code{ungetc} does not discard +the @code{ungetc} buffer, on some platforms: +MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Cygwin 1.5.25-10. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +@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 9. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno} +upon failure. +@item +This function crashes if the stream's file descriptor has already been +closed, if @code{MSVC_INVALID_PARAMETER_HANDLING} is +@code{HAIRY_LIBRARY_HANDLING} or @code{SANE_LIBRARY_HANDLING}, +on some platforms: +MSVC 9. +@item +@code{fflush} on an input stream right after @code{ungetc} does not discard +the @code{ungetc} buffer, on some platforms: +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize |