diff MODULES.html.sh @ 12267:c400da5f66bb

mknod: new module Solaris 9 mknod("name/",mode,dev) mistakenly creates "name" for non-directory mode. FreeBSD 7.2 mknod("dangling/",mode,dev) mistakenly creates the target of the symlink if run as root. FreeBSD and OpenBSD mknod("fifo",S_IFIFO|mode,0) fails for non-root. Use of mknod caused link failures on mingw. * modules/mknod: New file. * m4/mknod.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKNOD): Likewise. * lib/mknod.c (mknod): Likewise. * m4/sys_stat_h.m4 (gl_SYS_STAT_H_DEFAULTS): Set witness defaults. * modules/sys_stat (Makefile.am): Substitute them. * lib/sys_stat.in.h (mknod): Declare replacement. * MODULES.html.sh (Support for systems lacking POSIX:2008): Document it. * doc/posix-functions/mknod.texi (mknod): Likewise. * modules/mknod-tests: New test. * tests/test-mknod.c: Likewise. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
author Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
date Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:23:04 -0700
parents 37fd04a02bc8
children 9c11ef292284
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--- a/MODULES.html.sh	Wed Nov 11 13:22:04 2009 -0700
+++ b/MODULES.html.sh	Wed Nov 11 13:23:04 2009 -0700
@@ -2288,6 +2288,7 @@
   func_module mkdir
   func_module mkdtemp
   func_module mkfifo
+  func_module mknod
   func_module mkstemp
   func_module netdb
   func_module netinet_in