Re: mingw lseek bug

[Bruno Haible]

Eric Blake wrote:
> --- doc/functions/lseek.texi  1 May 2007 15:11:38 -0000       1.1
> +++ doc/functions/lseek.texi  24 May 2007 16:21:36 -0000
> @@ -4,10 +4,12 @@
>  
>  POSIX specification: @url{http://www.opengroup.org/susv3xsh/lseek.html}
>  
> -Gnulib module: ---
> +Gnulib module: lseek
>  
>  Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
>  @itemize
> address@hidden
> +This function mistakenly succeeds on non-seekable files: mingw.
>  @end itemize
>  
>  Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

Since there are some kinds of non-seekable files on which lseek is allowed
to succeed (only pipes, FIFOs and sockets are mandated to fail), I'm
changing the doc like this:

--- doc/functions/lseek.texi  24 May 2007 16:59:21 -0000      1.2
+++ doc/functions/lseek.texi  28 May 2007 13:57:29 -0000
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
-This function mistakenly succeeds on non-seekable files: mingw.
+This function mistakenly succeeds on pipes on some platforms: mingw.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib: