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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3fdc035 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/openat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +@node openat +@section @code{openat} +@findex openat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/openat.html} + +Gnulib module: openat + +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{open} may not work +correctly with files larger than 2 GB. (Cf. @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE}.) +@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: +Solaris 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@end itemize |