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doc: Mention a Cygwin 3.4.6 bug
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Bruno Haible |
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doc: Mention a Cygwin 3.4.6 bug |
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Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:01:38 +0200 |
readlinkat() has a bug on Cygwin, that's not worth working around. So I'm
just documenting it:
2023-04-18 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
doc: Mention a Cygwin 3.4.6 bug.
* doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi: Mention a readlinkat bug on
Cygwin < 3.4.7.
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi
b/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi
index 2cd2e7be5b..96ae7ec67a 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/readlinkat.texi
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@
it sets @code{errno} to @code{EINVAL}:
AIX 7.2.
@item
+When this function is called on an empty file name, it fails with error
+@code{EBADF} instead of @code{ENOENT}:
+@c https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-April/253510.html
+Cygwin 3.4.6.
+@item
Symlink contents do not always have a trailing null byte, and there is
no indication if symlink contents were truncated if the return value
matches the length. Furthermore,
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