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From: Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>
To: cygwin-patches@cygwin.com
Subject: [PATCH] Cygwin: fsync: Return EINVAL for special files.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:37:06 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220311213707.1463-1-takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp> (raw)

- Unlike linux, fsync() calls FlushFileBuffers() even for special
  files. This cause the problem reported in:
    https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2022-March/251022.html
  This patch fixes the issue.
---
 winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
index 98d7a3b2d..fc7bf0a0e 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
@@ -1750,7 +1750,7 @@ fhandler_base::utimens (const struct timespec *tvp)
 int
 fhandler_base::fsync ()
 {
-  if (!get_handle () || nohandle ())
+  if (!get_handle () || nohandle () || pc.isspecial ())
     {
       set_errno (EINVAL);
       return -1;
-- 
2.35.1


             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-11 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-11 21:37 Takashi Yano [this message]
2022-03-14  9:50 ` Corinna Vinschen

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