mkdir on MSVC

[Bruno Haible]

Another simple doc tweak:


2011-09-23  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        mkdir: Tweak for MSVC 9.
        * lib/sys_stat.in.h: Update comments.
        * doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi: Mention problem on MSVC 9.

--- doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi.orig Fri Sep 23 12:45:35 2011
+++ doc/posix-functions/mkdir.texi      Fri Sep 23 12:03:02 2011
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
 @itemize
 @item
+This function is declared in different header files (namely, @code{<io.h>} or
address@hidden<direct.h>}) on some platforms:
+mingw, MSVC 9.
address@hidden
 When the argument ends in a slash, the function call fails on some platforms.
 @item
 This function mistakenly succeeds on @samp{mkdir("d/./",mode)} on
--- lib/sys_stat.in.h.orig      Fri Sep 23 12:45:35 2011
+++ lib/sys_stat.in.h   Fri Sep 23 12:41:33 2011
@@ -55,10 +55,11 @@
 /* The definition of _GL_WARN_ON_USE is copied here.  */
 
 /* Before doing "#define mkdir rpl_mkdir" below, we need to include all
-   headers that may declare mkdir().  */
+   headers that may declare mkdir().  Native Windows platforms declare mkdir
+   in <io.h> and/or <direct.h>, not in <unistd.h>.  */
 #if (defined _WIN32 || defined __WIN32__) && ! defined __CYGWIN__
 # include <io.h>     /* mingw32, mingw64 */
-# include <direct.h> /* mingw64 */
+# include <direct.h> /* mingw64, MSVC 9 */
 #endif
 
 #ifndef S_IFIFO
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