On Jan 14 19:53, Christian Franke wrote: > Jon Turney wrote: > > On 14/01/2024 16:07, Christian Franke wrote: > > > Recently I learned about the existence and usefulness of close_range(): > > > https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/issues/235 > > > > > > https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=close_range&sektion=2 > > > https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/close_range.2.html > > > > > > Note that the above Linux man page is not fully correct. The include > > > file "linux/close_range.h" exists, but provides only the defines. It > > > is sufficient to include "unistd.h" as on FreeBSD. > > > > > > The attached patch adds this to Cygwin. It does not implement the > > > Linux-specific CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE as I have no idea how to do this > > > :-) > > > > This API should also be mentioned in the > > "System interfaces compatible with GNU or Linux extensions" section of > > doc/posix.xml > > > > > > Thanks for the info. I used the recent "Cygwin: introduce fallocate(2)" > patch as a blueprint for which other files should be changed (fallocate is > also missing in the posix.xml file).
Oops, thanks for notifying. I'll add it in a bit... Corinna
