From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin-devel <cygwin-developers@cygwin.com>
Subject: mknod bug?
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 17:22:24 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e308809a-d907-5163-0629-38571550e6ec@cornell.edu> (raw)
The definition of mknod in syscalls.cc has a third argument of type __dev16_t
instead of dev_t. This doesn't matter on 32-bit Cygwin, because calls to mknod
are redirected to mknod32 via NEW_FUNCTIONS in Makefile.am [cygwin-3_3-branch
only]. Presumably this definition exists for the sake of old 32-bit apps that
were built when dev_t was 16 bits.
But it seems to be a clear bug on 64-bit Cygwin. I think we need the following,
similar to what we do for many other syscalls:
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 3a652c4f4..344d1d329 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -3490,11 +3490,15 @@ mknod32 (const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)
return -1;
}
+#ifdef __i386__
extern "C" int
mknod (const char *_path, mode_t mode, __dev16_t dev)
{
return mknod32 (_path, mode, (dev_t) dev);
}
+#else
+EXPORT_ALIAS (mknod32, mknod)
+#endif
extern "C" int
mkfifo (const char *path, mode_t mode)
If I'm right, this is a longstanding bug, and I'm surprised no one has noticed
it before. Am I missing something?
Ken
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