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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseeko.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseeko.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f975d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fseeko.texi @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +@node fseeko +@section @code{fseeko} +@findex fseeko + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fseeko.html} + +Gnulib module: fseeko + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +IRIX 5.3, OSF/1 4.0, Solaris 2.5.1, mingw, MSVC 9. +@item +The declaration of @code{fseeko} in @code{<stdio.h>} is not enabled by default +on some platforms: +glibc 2.3.6, OSF/1 5.1. +@item +This function fails on seekable stdin, stdout, and stderr: cygwin <= 1.5.24. +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fseeko} does not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 64-bit type, but @code{fseeko} is +not present, stream operations on files larger than 2 GB silently do +the wrong thing. This affects BSD/OS, which is mostly obsolete. +@end itemize |