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changeset 11115:3ac4b9408832
Improve doc of dirfd module.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:39:09 +0100 |
parents | ecdf003aa29f |
children | 4132ab46c21f |
files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2009-02-07 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> + + * doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi: Clarify situation on mingw. Document + failure behaviour. + 2009-02-07 Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> regex: avoid compilation failure with upcoming gcc-4.4
--- a/doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi @@ -10,12 +10,16 @@ @itemize @item This function is missing on some platforms: -AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10. +AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item -This function is missing on some platforms: +This function always fails on some platforms: mingw. @end itemize + +With the @code{dirfd} module, this functions always sets @code{errno} when it +fails. (POSIX does not require that @code{dirfd} sets @code{errno} when it +fails.)