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  • Hash : 599bbd22
    Author : Eric Blake
    Date : 2009-11-11T13:23:04

    mknod: new module
    
    Solaris 9 mknod("name/",mode,dev) mistakenly creates "name" for
    non-directory mode.  FreeBSD 7.2 mknod("dangling/",mode,dev)
    mistakenly creates the target of the symlink if run as root.
    FreeBSD and OpenBSD mknod("fifo",S_IFIFO|mode,0) fails for non-root.
    Use of mknod caused link failures on mingw.
    
    * modules/mknod: New file.
    * m4/mknod.m4 (gl_FUNC_MKNOD): Likewise.
    * lib/mknod.c (mknod): Likewise.
    * m4/sys_stat_h.m4 (gl_SYS_STAT_H_DEFAULTS): Set witness
    defaults.
    * modules/sys_stat (Makefile.am): Substitute them.
    * lib/sys_stat.in.h (mknod): Declare replacement.
    * MODULES.html.sh (Support for systems lacking POSIX:2008):
    Document it.
    * doc/posix-functions/mknod.texi (mknod): Likewise.
    * modules/mknod-tests: New test.
    * tests/test-mknod.c: Likewise.
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
    

  • README

  • Misc notes
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    regexprops-generic.texi is generated via a utility in findutils.
    
    How to update gnulib manual on www.gnu.org
    ------------------------------------------
    
    1) You need a non-anonymous checkout of the web pages directory.
    
       $ cvs -d :ext:jas@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/web/gnulib \
             checkout gnulib
    
    2) Get familiar with the instructions for web page maintainers.
       http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/readme_index.html
       http://www.gnu.org/server/standards/README.software.html
       especially the note about symlinks.
    
    3) Assuming GNULIB_CHECKOUT refers to a checkout of the gnulib dir,
       and      GNULIB_WWW_CHECKOUT refers to the other directory created above (1),
       do
    
       GNULIB_WWW_CHECKOUT=`cd $GNULIB_WWW_CHECKOUT && pwd`
       cd $GNULIB_CHECKOUT/doc
       make updated-stamp
       ../build-aux/gendocs.sh -o "$GNULIB_WWW_CHECKOUT/manual" \
         gnulib "The GNU Portability Library"
       cd $GNULIB_WWW_CHECKOUT
    
       Verify that the result looks sane.
    
    4) Commit the modified and the new files.
    
    5) Find the files which have not been overwritten (because they belonged
       to sections that have been removed or renamed):
    
       $ cd manual/html_node
       $ ls -lt
    
       Remove these files and commit their removal to CVS.
       For each of these files, add a line to the file .symlinks. This will
       ensure that hyperlinks to the removed files will redirect to the entire
       manual; this is better than a 404 error.
    
    There is a problem with 'index.html' being written twice (once for POSIX
    function 'index', once for the table of contents); you can ignore this issue.