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ttyname_r: Work around bug on Android 4.3.
* m4/ttyname_r.m4 (gl_FUNC_TTYNAME_R): Test whether ttyname_r is a stub.
* lib/ttyname_r.c (ttyname_r): Implement for Android.
* doc/posix-functions/ttyname_r.texi: Mention the Android bug.
* doc/posix-functions/ttyname.texi: Likewise.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Sat, 26 Jan 2019 11:56:31 +0100 |
parents | 46ad39e4acfe |
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@node ioctl @section @code{ioctl} @findex ioctl POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/ioctl.html} Gnulib module: ioctl Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{ioctl} is called @code{ioctlsocket}, and error codes from this function are not placed in @code{errno}, and @code{WSAGetLastError} must be used instead. @item The second parameter is of type @code{unsigned long} rather than @code{int} on some platforms: glibc 2.26, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 11.0, NetBSD 7.0, OpenBSD 6.0, BeOS, Haiku 2017. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item Most @code{ioctl} requests are platform and hardware specific. @end itemize