9.181 dirfd

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/dirfd.html

Gnulib module: dirfd

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: Minix 3.1.8, AIX 7.1, HP-UX 11, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, mingw, MSVC 9.

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function always fails on some platforms: mingw.

With the dirfd module, this functions always sets errno when it fails. (POSIX does not require that dirfd sets errno when it fails.)