8.10 fcntl.h

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/fcntl.h.html

Gnulib module: fcntl-h

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• The type pid_t is not defined on some platforms: MSVC 9.
• The type mode_t is not defined on some platforms: MSVC 9.
• ‘O_CLOEXEC’, ‘O_DIRECTORY’, ‘O_DSYNC’, ‘O_NOCTTY’, ‘O_NOFOLLOW’, ‘O_RSYNC’, ‘O_SYNC’, and ‘O_TTY_INIT’ are not defined on some platforms. Gnulib defines these macros to 0, which is generally safe.
• ‘O_NONBLOCK’ is not defined on some platforms. If the ‘nonblocking’ module is in use, gnulib guarantees a working non-zero value; otherwise, the gnulib replacement is 0.
• ‘O_EXEC’ and ‘O_SEARCH’ are not defined on some platforms. Gnulib defines these macros to ‘O_RDONLY’, which is typically 0. The ‘O_PATH’ macro of GNU/Linux is not a suitable substitute, as fchmod fails with ‘errno==EBADF’ when invoked on a file descriptor that was opened with ‘O_PATH’.
• ‘O_ACCMODE’ is not defined on some platforms: MSVC 9.
• The ‘O_ACCMODE’ mask mistakenly omits ‘O_SEARCH’ and ‘O_EXEC’ on some platforms: Cygwin.
• ‘O_BINARY’, ‘O_TEXT’ (not specified by POSIX, but essential for portability to native Windows platforms) are defined on some platforms but not on others.
• ‘O_CLOEXEC’, ‘O_NOFOLLOW’, and ‘O_TTY_INIT’ are defined to values that are too large for an int on some platforms: AIX 7.1 with XL C 12.1.
• ‘O_DIRECT’, ‘O_IGNORE_CTTY’, ‘O_NDELAY’, ‘O_NOATIME’, ‘O_NOLINK’, ‘O_NOLINKS’, and ‘O_NOTRANS’ (not specified by POSIX) are defined on some platforms but not on others.
• ‘FD_CLOEXEC’, ‘F_DUPFD’, and ‘F_GETFD’ are not defined on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
• ‘F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC’ is not defined on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 11 2010-11, Cygwin 1.7.1, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
• ‘AT_FDCWD’, ‘AT_EACCESS’, ‘AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW’, ‘AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW’, and ‘AT_REMOVEDIR’ are not defined on many platforms: glibc 2.3.6, Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 8, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
• ‘AT_FDCWD’ is defined with a value too large for an int on some platforms: Solaris 11 2011-11.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• ‘F_SETFD’, ‘F_GETFL’, ‘F_SETFL’, ‘F_GETLK’, ‘F_SETLK’, ‘F_SETLKW’, ‘F_GETOWN’, and ‘F_SETOWN’ are not defined on some platforms: mingw, MSVC 9.
• ‘POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED’, ‘POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE’, ‘POSIX_FADV_NORMAL’, ‘POSIX_FADV_RANDOM’, ‘POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL’, and ‘POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED’ are not defined on some platforms.