dirent: Document the last fix.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 41fb383cee5f321bce3acd27c693c65304b992fc..91538174019c28c1c3883dd65c9f0186cd6ff72a 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-01-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       dirent: Document the last fix.
+       * doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi: Document the bug of missing 'ino_t'.
+
 2010-01-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        stdio: Ensure <stdio.h> defines off_t, ssize_t, va_list.

diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
index 3a00a536b3f51eef2ddb146c343c6fb1ca71ecd3..439947a2a31a78131e06d5fc0ef20d7ef7873bc6 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Gnulib module: dirent
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+The type @code{ino_t} is missing on some platforms:
+glibc 2.8 and others.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

diff --git a/lib/dirent.in.h b/lib/dirent.in.h
index b87f5dc013d50edde3698d631bdcf47d51339535..4b02cfbcf6a1c88eab37eae9a41e714ff29ae111 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/dirent.in.h
+++ b/lib/dirent.in.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #ifndef _GL_DIRENT_H
 #define _GL_DIRENT_H
 
-/* Grab ino_t.  */
+/* Get ino_t.  Needed on some systems, including glibc 2.8.  */
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 /* The definition of GL_LINK_WARNING is copied here.  */