Mercurial > gnulib
changeset 30806:cf0fafec2024
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 | f49c605d7cbd |
children | f19bfdba52da |
files | ChangeLog doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi |
diffstat | 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/ChangeLog Thu Feb 05 19:57:35 2009 +0100 +++ b/ChangeLog Sat Feb 07 11:39:09 2009 +0100 @@ -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 Thu Feb 05 19:57:35 2009 +0100 +++ b/doc/posix-functions/dirfd.texi Sat Feb 07 11:39:09 2009 +0100 @@ -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.)