From: Valentine Barshak The patch makes posix_fadvise return ESPIPE on FIFO/pipe in order to be fully POSIX-compliant. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/fadvise.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN mm/fadvise.c~fadvise-return-espipe-on-fifo-pipe mm/fadvise.c --- 25/mm/fadvise.c~fadvise-return-espipe-on-fifo-pipe Fri Dec 9 14:59:43 2005 +++ 25-akpm/mm/fadvise.c Fri Dec 9 14:59:43 2005 @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ asmlinkage long sys_fadvise64_64(int fd, 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; _