From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2025 21:40:50 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: doc: Document that fsync doesn't work on directories on AIX 7.3.
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doc: Document that fsync doesn't work on directories on AIX 7.3.

Reported by Lakshmi-Surekha <Lakshmi.Kovvuri@ibm.com> in:
<https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/188>.

* doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi: Document the behavior.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index ac20d475da..3cebc0d793 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2025-07-22  Collin Funk  <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
+
+	doc: Document that fsync doesn't work on directories on AIX 7.3.
+	Reported by Lakshmi-Surekha <Lakshmi.Kovvuri@ibm.com> in:
+	<https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/issues/188>.
+	* doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi: Document the behavior.
+
 2025-07-22  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
 	mkdir-p: ENOENT/ENOTDIR safety and consistency
diff --git a/doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi b/doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi
index d9149b4685..924546516b 100644
--- a/doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi
+++ b/doc/posix-functions/fsync.texi
@@ -20,4 +20,9 @@ Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
 If the argument is a read-only file descriptor, this function fails
 with @code{EBADF} on some platforms:
 AIX 7.2, Cygwin 2.9.
+
+@item
+If the argument is a directory file descriptor, this function fails with
+@code{EBADF} on some platforms:
+AIX 7.3.
 @end itemize