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-rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog index 169db2a00..049e1491c 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog +++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2010-04-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + * posix.sgml (std-notes): Improve lseek description. + +2010-04-12 Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de> + * fhandler_tty.cc (fhandler_tty_slave::open): Add code to duplicate handles within a single process to simplify openpty case. (fhandler_tty_slave::cygserver_attach_tty): Correctly send Windows PID diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml index b7358523d..6a3bc2298 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml +++ b/winsup/cygwin/posix.sgml @@ -1449,8 +1449,9 @@ only support ITIMER_REAL for now.</para> a true hardlink. This is true at least for FAT and FAT32 filesystems. NTFS supports hardlinks. </para> -<para><function>lseek</function> only works properly on binary -files.</para> +<para><function>lseek</function> only works properly on files opened in +binary mode. On files opened in textmode (via mount mode or explicit +open flag) its positioning is potentially unreliable.</para> <para><function>setuid</function> is only safe against reverting the user switch after a call to one of the exec(2) functions took place. Windows |