Hash :
864eeee5
Author :
Date :
2011-05-06T00:34:34
fclose, fflush: Respect rules for use of AC_LIBOBJ. * m4/fflush.m4 (gl_FUNC_FFLUSH): Don't invoke gl_REPLACE_FCLOSE. * m4/fclose.m4 (gl_FUNC_FCLOSE): Invoke gl_FUNC_FFLUSH_STDIN and gl_REPLACE_FCLOSE here. * modules/fflush (Depends-on): Remove fclose. * doc/posix-functions/fclose.texi: Mention module 'fflush' only in combination with module 'fclose'.
@node fclose
@section @code{fclose}
@findex fclose
POSIX specification:@* @url{http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fclose.html}
Gnulib module: fclose, fflush
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{fclose} together with module @code{fflush}:
@itemize
@item
On some platforms, this function fails to set the file position of a
seekable input stream to the byte after the last one actually read:
glibc 2.13, FreeBSD.
@end itemize
Portability problems fixed by Gnulib module @code{fclose}:
@itemize
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), @code{socket} and @code{accept}
followed by @code{fdopen} do not return streams that can be closed by
@code{fclose}.
@end itemize
Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
On Windows platforms (excluding Cygwin), this function does not set @code{errno}
upon failure.
@end itemize