Mention glibc function 'fallocate'.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2009-05-21  Pádraig Brady  <P@draigbrady.com>
+
+       * doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi: New file.
+       * doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
+
 2009-05-21  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
             Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 

diff --git a/doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi b/doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c7d2f52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+@node fallocate
+@subsection @code{fallocate}
+@findex fallocate
+
+Gnulib module: ---
+
+Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@end itemize
+
+Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
+@itemize
+@item
+This function is missing on older glibc versions and all non-glibc platforms:
+MacOS X 10.3, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 3.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin, mingw, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
+@end itemize

diff --git a/doc/gnulib.texi b/doc/gnulib.texi
index 89563483b8a79d871e37af5b28b10e996be78dd9..3466f0d9fbb5b889ba6b98e872dd97e18e433b7a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/gnulib.texi
+++ b/doc/gnulib.texi
@@ -3632,9 +3632,11 @@ This list of functions is sorted according to the header that declares them.
 @section Glibc Extensions to @code{<fcntl.h>}
 
 @menu
+* fallocate::
 * readahead::
 @end menu
 
+@include glibc-functions/fallocate.texi
 @include glibc-functions/readahead.texi
 
 @node Glibc fenv.h