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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d14c3e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/freopen.texi @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +@node freopen +@section @code{freopen} +@findex freopen + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/freopen.html} + +Gnulib module: freopen + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{freopen} may not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not +recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno} +upon failure. +@item +This function does not support a @code{NULL} file name argument on some +platforms: +OpenBSD 4.9, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11.23, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash +and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file or a file that is not a +directory, on some platforms: +HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9, Irix 5.3. +@item +Applications should not assume that @code{fileno(f)} will be the same +before and after a call to @code{freopen(name,mode,f)}. However, the +module freopen-safer can at least protect @code{stdin}, @code{stdout}, +and @code{stderr}. +@end itemize |