Commit 87ba81db authored by Valentine Barshak's avatar Valentine Barshak Committed by Linus Torvalds
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[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: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 99aef427

mm/fadvise.c

+5 −0
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@@ -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;