[PATCH] Fix bogus fsync() error
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Tue Feb 1 08:47:00 GMT 2011
On Jan 31 20:44, Christian Franke wrote:
> If used on raw devices like /dev/sda fsync() always fails with
> EBADRQC (54) because FlushFileBuffers() always fails with
> ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION (1).
>
> The attached patch fixes this by simply ignoring this error in the
> fhandler_base implementation. This should not affect any real flush
> errors which likely would return other error codes.
>
> An alternative approach would be to ignore the error only in a new
> fhandler_raw_dev/floppy::fsync(). IMO not worth the effort is this
> case.
I agree. I applied the patch.
Thanks,
Corinna
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