On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 15:53:37 +0100
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Takashi,
> 
> On Jan 21 21:44, Takashi Yano wrote:
> > The commit af8a7c13b516 has a problem that fsync returns EINVAL for
> > block device. This patch treats block devices as a special case.
> > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2023-January/252916.html
> > 
> > Fixes: af8a7c13b516 ("Cygwin: fsync: Return EINVAL for special files.")
> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Yano <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc
> > index b2738cf20..fc0410522 100644
> > --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc
> > +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler/base.cc
> > @@ -1725,10 +1725,31 @@ fhandler_base::utimens (const struct timespec *tvp)
> >    return -1;
> >  }
> >  
> > +static bool
> > +is_block_device (_major_t major)
> > +{
> > +  switch (major)
> > +    {
> > +    case DEV_FLOPPY_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_CDROM_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD1_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD2_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD3_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD4_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD5_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD6_MAJOR:
> > +    case DEV_SD7_MAJOR:
> > +      return true;
> > +    }
> > +  return false;
> > +}
> > +
> 
> You shouldn't need that. Just check S_ISBLK (pc.dev.mode ())

Thanks for the advice. I looked into the S_ISBLK macro and
winsup/cygwin/devices.cc and noticed that S_ISBLK() returns
true for tape device. Is this the right thing?

-- 
Takashi Yano <[email protected]>

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