* functions.texi (Function Portability): Document missing lstat

on mingw.

diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index 1e28142..884a26f 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-06-29  Eric Blake  <ebb9@byu.net>
+
+       * functions.texi (Function Portability): Document missing lstat
+       on mingw.
+
 2006-06-21  Simon Josefsson  <jas@extundo.com>
 
        * gnulib.texi (Windows sockets): Add.

diff --git a/doc/functions.texi b/doc/functions.texi
index ecb31a3..c9be919 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/functions.texi
+++ b/doc/functions.texi
@@ -366,6 +366,9 @@ On platforms where @code{off_t} is a 32-bit type, @code{lstat} may not
 correctly report the size of files or block devices larger than 2 GB.  The fix
 is to use the @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
 
+On Windows systems (excluding Cygwin), symlinks are not supported, so
+@code{lstat} does not exist.  The fix is to define lstat to use stat.
+
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