5 POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/open.html}
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 This function does not fail when the file name argument ends in a slash
13 and (without the slash) names a nonexistent file or a file that is not a
14 directory, on some platforms:
15 HP-UX 11.00, Solaris 9, Irix 5.3.
17 On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does usually not
18 recognize the @file{/dev/null} filename.
21 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
24 On Windows, this function returns a file handle in @code{O_TEXT} mode by
25 default; this means that it translates '\n' to CR/LF by default. Use the
26 @code{O_BINARY} flag if you need reliable binary I/O.
28 On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{open} may not work
29 correctly with files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the
30 @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.