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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..31b4365 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +@node fstat +@section @code{fstat} +@findex fstat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstat.html} + +Gnulib module: fstat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function crashes when invoked with invalid arguments on some platforms: +MSVC 9. +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fstat} may not correctly +report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. +(Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On Cygwin, @code{fstat} applied to the file descriptors 0 and 1, returns +different @code{st_ino} values, even if standard input and standard output +are not redirected and refer to the same terminal. +@end itemize |