On all native Windows platforms, we have this test failure: test-fsync.c:73: assertion failed FAIL: test-fsync.exe
This fixes it. 2012-02-04 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> fsync: Avoid test failure on native Windows. * lib/fsync.c (fsync) [Windows]: Don't fail if the handle is merely read-only. --- lib/fsync.c.orig Sat Feb 4 14:58:07 2012 +++ lib/fsync.c Sat Feb 4 13:15:27 2012 @@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ err = GetLastError (); switch (err) { + case ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED: + /* For a read-only handle, fsync should succeed, even though we have + no way to sync the access-time changes. */ + return 0; + /* eg. Trying to fsync a tty. */ case ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE: errno = EINVAL;