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[PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe
authorValentine Barshak <vbarshak@ru.mvista.com>
Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:44 +0000 (01:03 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:14:00 +0000 (20:14 -0800)
The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be
fully POSIX-compliant.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
mm/fadvise.c

index 5f19e87bc5af1c86dd121d7e50dcd3e5cc1c7e94..d257c89e7704c60d8decf405c89c46f8de262153 100644 (file)
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int advice)
        if (!file)
                return -EBADF;
 
+       if (S_ISFIFO(file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+               ret = -ESPIPE;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        mapping = file->f_mapping;
        if (!mapping || len < 0) {
                ret = -EINVAL;