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From Thomas Munro
Subject pgsql: Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.
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Msg-id E1gxrd3-0002BQ-61@gemulon.postgresql.org
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Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.

Previously, we tolerated EBADF as a way for the operating system to
indicate that it doesn't support fsync() on a directory.  Tolerate
EINVAL too, for older versions of Linux CIFS.

Bug #15636.  Back-patch all the way.

Reported-by: John Klann
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/15636-d380890dafd78fc6@postgresql.org

Branch
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REL9_6_STABLE

Details
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/ad714c6072c9482ffd398716fdc018f25c5c2fb0

Modified Files
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src/backend/storage/file/fd.c | 2 +-
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c       | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


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