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Tolerate EINVAL when calling fsync() on a directory.

Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>

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Commit: 0ec89a0f6752d55efee4377928087b1865d7ac5e
Author: Thomas Munro <tmunro@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-24T11:02:15Z
Releases: 9.5.17 
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

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src/backend/storage/file/fd.c modified +1 −1
src/bin/initdb/initdb.c modified +1 −1

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