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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fcb2b30 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +@node fstatat +@section @code{fstatat} +@findex fstatat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fstatat.html} + +Gnulib module: fstatat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +This function is missing on some platforms: +glibc 2.3.6, MacOS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS. +But the replacement function is not safe to be used in libraries and is not multithread-safe. +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{fstatat} may +not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 +GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@item +On some platforms, @code{fstatat(fd,"file/",buf,flag)} succeeds instead of +failing with @code{ENOTDIR}. +Solaris 9. +@item +For symlinks, when the argument ends in a slash, some platforms don't +dereference the argument: +Solaris 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0. +@item +On some file systems, @code{st_size} contains bogus information for +symlinks; use the gnulib module areadlink-with-size for a better way +to get symlink contents. +@end itemize |