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Work around open() bug on HP-UX 11 and Solaris 9.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:17:36 +0200 |
parents | 8cd0f07812b0 |
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@node open @section @code{open} @findex open POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/open.html} Gnulib module: open Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file, on some platforms: HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9. @item On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item On Windows, this function returns a file handle in @code{O_TEXT} mode by default; this means that it translates '\n' to CR/LF by default. Use the @code{O_BINARY} flag if you need reliable binary I/O. @item On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{open} may not work correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. @end itemize