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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseek.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseek.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ca4320 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseek.texi @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +@node fseek +@section @code{fseek} +@findex fseek + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fseek.html} + +Gnulib module: fseek + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@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 +On platforms where @code{long} is a 32-bit type, @code{fseek} does not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB, even when the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} +macro is used. The fix is to use @code{fseeko} instead. +@end itemize |