[OE-core] [PATCH] makedevs: Do not return error if the fifo exisits

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Tue Oct 1 16:51:00 UTC 2013


This ensures that makedevs will not cause image creation failures
when it encounters a pipe (fifo) that exists from a previous image.
The other file/device creation code either ignore this error or check
for file type.

[YOCTO #5288]

Signed-off-by: Saul Wold <sgw at linux.intel.com>
---
 meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs-1.0.0/makedevs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs-1.0.0/makedevs.c b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs-1.0.0/makedevs.c
index 5d2c45b..7b0487f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs-1.0.0/makedevs.c
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/makedevs/makedevs-1.0.0/makedevs.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ static void add_new_file(char *name, char *path, unsigned long uid,
 static void add_new_fifo(char *name, char *path, unsigned long uid,
 				  unsigned long gid, unsigned long mode)
 {
-	if (mknod(path, mode, 0))
+	if (mknod(path, mode, 0) && errno != EEXIST)
 		error_msg_and_die("%s: file can not be created with mknod!", path);
 	chown(path, uid, gid);
 //	printf("File: %s %s  UID: %ld  GID: %ld  MODE: %04lo\n",
-- 
1.7.10.4




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