X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Subject: Re: ioctl: FIONREAD and ENOTTY From: "Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 17:37:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110720154647.GA15150@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <1311149476 DOT 7796 DOT 50 DOT camel AT YAAKOV04> <20110720154647 DOT GA15150 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1311201422.6248.10.camel@YAAKOV04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 17:46 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jul 20 03:11, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > > On Linux, ioctl(2) returns several different errors[1]: > > > > EBADF d is not a valid descriptor. > > EFAULT argp references an inaccessible memory area. > > EINVAL Request or argp is not valid. > > ENOTTY d is not associated with a character special device. > > ENOTTY The specified request does not apply to the kind of object that > > the descriptor d references. > > > > In the case of FIONREAD, Cygwin doesn't seem to distinguish between > > EINVAL and ENOTTY, and this causes at least one major bug: > > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35536 > > > > I have patched GCJ and GNU classpath to work around it, but this really > > needs to be fixed in Cygwin itself. > > Would this patch be sufficient? > > Index: fhandler.cc > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc,v > retrieving revision 1.397 > diff -u -p -r1.397 fhandler.cc > --- fhandler.cc 5 Jul 2011 12:02:10 -0000 1.397 > +++ fhandler.cc 20 Jul 2011 15:46:40 -0000 > @@ -1151,6 +1151,10 @@ fhandler_base::ioctl (unsigned int cmd, > set_nonblocking (*(int *) buf); > res = 0; > break; > + case FIONREAD: > + set_errno (ENOTTY); > + res = -1; > + break; > default: > set_errno (EINVAL); > res = -1; Given my testcases, give me a few days to check this out. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple