5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/open.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not
13 recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename.
16 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
19 On Windows, this function returns a file handle in @code{O_TEXT} mode by
20 default; this means that it translates '\n' to CR/LF by default. Use the
21 @code{O_BINARY} flag if you need reliable binary I/O.
23 On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{open} may not work
24 correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
25 @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.