From fd02eb2cbc271d5e27e5350db17bde9393b43a11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cwilso11 <cwilso11>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:28:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Avoid calling fsync on closed fd

---
 msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.MSYS | 5 +++++
 msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc    | 1 -
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.MSYS b/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.MSYS
index ff05b240..7993fd04 100644
--- a/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.MSYS
+++ b/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog.MSYS
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2011.03.31  Charles Wilson  <mingw@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
+
+	* syscall.cc (_close): Avoid calling fsync() on file descriptor
+	we just closed.
+
 2010.09.28  Cesar Strauss  <cestrauss@gmail.com>
 
 	* include/cygwin/version.h: Increment version to 1.0.16.
diff --git a/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 3b7493c0..d25e6dd5 100644
--- a/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/msys/rt/src/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -507,7 +507,6 @@ _close (int fd)
     {
       SetResourceLock (LOCK_FD_LIST,WRITE_LOCK|READ_LOCK," close");
       res = cygheap->fdtab[fd]->close ();
-      fsync(fd);
       cygheap->fdtab.release (fd);
       ReleaseResourceLock (LOCK_FD_LIST,WRITE_LOCK|READ_LOCK," close");
     }