Bug 21169 - stat(2) manpage falsely claims S_ISLNK is POSIX
Summary: stat(2) manpage falsely claims S_ISLNK is POSIX
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man-pages
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
QA Contact: Wil Harris
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-21 10:12 UTC by iwi
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-21 10:12:57 UTC
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Description iwi 2000-11-21 10:12:55 UTC 
The stat(2) manpage implies that S_ISLNK is a POSIX macro.

In fact, it seems to be a GNU extension.

    http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/libref.html

(and likewise S_ISSOCK)

This caused me to develop code on a RedHat machine, which
then turned out not to port cleanly to other systems.
Comment 1 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-11-21 20:31:10 UTC 
Fixed in man-pages-1.31-4, which should make it to Rawhide some day. Thanks for
the report, I'll upstream the patch.
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