From: Eric Blake Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 03:09:01 +0000 (-0600) Subject: perror: document fixed bugs X-Git-Url: https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=472f6137e29f97e0037cd6c8eec46faa2216e0db;p=pspp perror: document fixed bugs * doc/posix-functions/perror.texi (perror): Document recent patches. Signed-off-by: Eric Blake --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 149049044c..e899a6b1a2 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2011-06-07 Eric Blake + + perror: document fixed bugs + * doc/posix-functions/perror.texi (perror): Document recent + patches. + 2011-06-07 Paul Eggert stat-time: get_stat_birthtime failure is better-defined diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi b/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi index 13231e95ea..ddc7c9b968 100644 --- a/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi +++ b/doc/posix-functions/perror.texi @@ -16,6 +16,13 @@ OpenBSD 4.0, OSF/1 5.1, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw. This function treats @code{errno} of 0 like failure, although POSIX requires that the message declare it as a success, on some platforms: FreeBSD 8.2 +@item +This function clobbers the @code{strerror} buffer on some platforms: +Cygwin 1.7.9. +@item +This function fails to print a useful a string for out-of-range integers on +some platforms: +HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, Solaris 8. @end itemize Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: