mknod bug?

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Sat May 21 21:22:24 GMT 2022


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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