[bug report] fadvise64.2: Linux actually returns ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe

[Weijie Yang <weijie.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In man-page fadvise64.2(and its variants), the following is outdated:

"ESPIPE The specified file descriptor refers to a pipe or FIFO.  (Linux actually returns EINVAL in this case.)"


In Linux 2.6.12, kernel was modified to match the POSIX: return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe

See detail:

commit 87ba81dba431232548ce29d5d224115d0c2355ac
Author: Valentine Barshak <vbarshak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Sun Jan 8 01:03:44 2006 -0800

    [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@xxxxxxxx>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/fadvise.c b/mm/fadvise.c
index 5f19e87..d257c89 100644
--- a/mm/fadvise.c
+++ b/mm/fadvise.c
@@ -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;

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