Hi Paul, > > Return code on that as compiled comes back as "1" . > > OK, thanks, to move forward on that part, I installed the following > patch into gnulib. > ... check for the AIX 7.1 bug
But there is no AIX 7.1 bug. If fstatat would return wrong st_size fields, the return code would have been 3, not 1. Kevin Brott reported an exit code of 1, which means, he saved the file as "foo.c", not "fstat-test.c", as was intended. $ gcc -Wall fstat-test.c $ ./a.out $ echo $? 0 The test that you put into openat.m4 succeeds (return code 0) on AIX 7.1 for me. $ gcc -Wall foo.c $ ./a.out $ echo $? 1 $ echo xxx >conftest.file $ ./a.out $ echo $? 0 So I think the entire patch is a workaround against a nonexistent bug. (And if it was a real bug, it would have had to be documented in doc/posix-functions/fstatat.texi.) Bruno -- In memoriam Magomed Yevloyev <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magomed_Yevloyev>
