Commit 87ba81db authored Jan 08, 2006 by Valentine Barshak Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 08, 2006

[PATCH] fadvise: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe



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>

parent 99aef427

mm/fadvise.c

+5 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -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;