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Documentation of what gnulib provides for each function.
author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> |
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date | Tue, 01 May 2007 15:11:37 +0000 |
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@node fstat @section @code{fstat} @findex fstat POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/fstat.html} Gnulib module: --- Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: @itemize @item On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{stat} may not correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro. @item On Cygwin, @code{fstat} applied to the file descriptors 0 and 1, returns different @code{st_ino} values, even if standard input and standard output are not redirected and refer to the same terminal. @end itemize