From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 22:19:38 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: dirent: Document the last fix.
X-Git-Tag: stable/20100109~18
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=53c2db0fd4b2363d61cce3bfbc03a65a3a4786dc;p=gnulib.git

dirent: Document the last fix.
(cherry picked from commit 027bd46103b5e6a19653b216b15fe04d3a3f63bc)
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 41fb383ce..915381740 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2010-01-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
+	dirent: Document the last fix.
+	* doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi: Document the bug of missing 'ino_t'.
+
+2010-01-07  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
 	stdio: Ensure <stdio.h> defines off_t, ssize_t, va_list.
 	* lib/stdio.in.h: Include <sys/types.h> unconditionally.
 	* tests/test-stdio.c: Verify that fpos_t, off_t, size_t, ssize_t,
diff --git a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
index 3a00a536b..439947a2a 100644
--- a/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-headers/dirent.texi
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Gnulib module: dirent
 
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
+@item
+The type @code{ino_t} is missing on some platforms:
+glibc 2.8 and others.
 @end itemize
 
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
diff --git a/lib/dirent.in.h b/lib/dirent.in.h
index b87f5dc01..4b02cfbcf 100644
--- a/lib/dirent.in.h
+++ b/lib/dirent.in.h
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #ifndef _GL_DIRENT_H
 #define _GL_DIRENT_H
 
-/* Grab ino_t.  */
+/* Get ino_t.  Needed on some systems, including glibc 2.8.  */
 #include <sys/types.h>
 
 /* The definition of GL_LINK_WARNING is copied here.  */