Re: [PATCH] Cygwin: introduce close_range

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

On Jan 14 19:53, Christian Franke wrote:
> Jon Turney wrote:
> > On 14/01/2024 16:07, Christian Franke wrote:
> > > Recently I learned about the existence and usefulness of close_range():
> > > https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/issues/235
> > > 
> > > https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=close_range&sektion=2
> > > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close_range.2.html
> > > 
> > > Note that the above Linux man page is not fully correct. The include
> > > file "linux/close_range.h" exists, but provides only the defines. It
> > > is sufficient to include "unistd.h" as on FreeBSD.
> > > 
> > > The attached patch adds this to Cygwin. It does not implement the
> > > Linux-specific CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE as I have no idea how to do this
> > > :-)
> > 
> > This API should also be mentioned in the
> > "System interfaces compatible with GNU or Linux extensions" section of
> > doc/posix.xml
> > 
> > 
> 
> Thanks for the info. I used the recent "Cygwin: introduce fallocate(2)"
> patch as a blueprint for which other files should be changed (fallocate is
> also missing in the posix.xml file).

Oops, thanks for notifying. I'll add it in a bit...


Corinna