mknod bug?
Ken Brown
kbrown@cornell.edu
Sun May 22 16:19:28 GMT 2022
On 5/21/2022 5:22 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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?
I sent the patch to cygwin-patches. Any comments should probably go there.
Ken
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