fstatat: Document a glibc 2.7 bug.

* doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi: Document an old glibc 2.7 bug.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 798bbac423139d9ae9943dbf44affeb7e3b4b91d..711e53f9c1a086d4bff7c18bc43bc1344129a2c6 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2021-05-13  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+       fstatat: Document a glibc 2.7 bug.
+       * doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi: Document an old glibc 2.7 bug.
+
 2021-05-13  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        posix_spawn, posix_spawnp: Fix build error on Minix 3.3.

diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi
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--- a/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi
@@ -35,5 +35,9 @@ offset from @code{tv_sec}.
 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+This function does not fail when the second argument is an empty string
+on some platforms:
+glibc 2.7.
+@item
 @xref{sys/stat.h}, for general portability problems with @code{struct stat}.
 @end itemize