In 2014, Paul updated the documentation for 'open' to mention that
NetBSD and FreeBSD set errno differently than specified by POSIX for:
open ("symlink", O_NOFOLLOW ...)
Today, I found that git's test suite failed on NetBSD 10.0 because of
this [1]. And just confirmed this is still the case o
Hi Paul,
Paul Eggert writes:
>> If POSIX were to try to standardize \` and \' instead of \A and \z, it
>> would have the benefit of existing practice (glibc)
>
> Not just glibc. A quick search shows that FreeBSD[1] and Boost[2][3]
> both support \`...\' in POSIX-style BREs and EREs, as an extens
> There are a number of complications, though, that need careful workarounds:
Another complication is that the 'git diff' option --no-relative, that we
need to use with git version >= 2.28, did not exist in versions < 2.28.
Here's a workaround:
2025-05-02 Bruno Haible
vc-mtime: Make
On Fri, 2 May 2025 at 02:30, Bruno Haible wrote:
>
> Indeed, dladdr sounds like it might well work. It's even in POSIX:2024 [1].
>
> According to gnulib's symbol database, dladdr is
> - in libc on musl, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, Cygwin,
> Minix,
> - in libdl on Linux/glibc, Hu
