Re: gnulib broken on systems lacking fchdir

[Nix]

On 29 Nov 2006, Matthew Woehlke told this:
> (...which, aside from the infamous NSK/OSS you've all come to hate me
> for :-) reportedly includes OS/2. According to "The Linux Programmer's
> Manual" (i.e. 'man fchdir'), "The fchdir call is compatible with SVr4,
> 4.4BSD and X/OPEN". Note the conspicuous absence of "POSIX".)

fchdir() is actually in POSIX, and that manpage is (as usual) out of
date:
<http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fchdir.html>.

(However, since OSes do exist that lack fchdir(), gnulib should try
to get along without it if possible, so your point remains valid.)

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