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diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib deleted file mode 160000 -Subproject 443bc5ffcf7429e557f4a371b0661abe98ddbc1 diff --git a/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09c3839 --- /dev/null +++ b/gnulib/doc/posix-functions/stat.texi @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +@node stat +@section @code{stat} +@findex stat + +POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/stat.html} + +Gnulib module: stat + +Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{stat} 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{stat("link-to-file/",buf)} succeeds instead +of failing with @code{ENOTDIR}. +FreeBSD 7.2, AIX 7.1, Solaris 9. +@item +On some platforms, @code{stat(".",buf)} and @code{stat("./",buf)} give +different results: +mingw, MSVC 9. +@end itemize + +Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: +@itemize +@item +Cygwin's @code{stat} function sometimes sets @code{errno} to @code{EACCES} when +@code{ENOENT} would be more appropriate. +@item +On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{st_ino} is always 0. +@item +Because of the definition of @code{struct stat}, it is not possible to +portably replace @code{stat} via an object-like macro. Therefore, +expressions such as @code{(islnk ? lstat : stat) (name, buf)} are not +portable, and should instead be written @code{islnk ? lstat (name, +buf) : stat (name, buf)}. +@end itemize |