win_fsync.h

#ifndef WIN_FSYNC_H
#define WIN_FSYNC_H

/* Emulate fsync on platforms that lack it, primarily Windows and
   cross-compilers like MinGW.

   This is derived from sqlite3 sources.
   http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/rlog?f=sqlite/src/os_win.c
   http://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html

   Written by Richard W.M. Jones <rjones.at.redhat.com>

   Copyright (C) 2008-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

   This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
   Lesser General Public License for more details.

   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

#include <windows.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <errno.h>

inline int fsync (int fd)
{
  HANDLE h = (HANDLE) _get_osfhandle (fd);
  DWORD err;

  if (h == INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
    {
      errno = EBADF;
      return -1;
    }

  if (!FlushFileBuffers (h))
    {
      /* Translate some Windows errors into rough approximations of Unix
       * errors.  MSDN is useless as usual - in this case it doesn't
       * document the full range of errors.
       */
      err = GetLastError ();
      switch (err)
        {
        case ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED:
          /* For a read-only handle, fsync should succeed, even though we have
             no way to sync the access-time changes.  */
          return 0;

          /* eg. Trying to fsync a tty. */
        case ERROR_INVALID_HANDLE:
          errno = EINVAL;
          break;

        default:
          errno = EIO;
        }
      return -1;
    }

  return 0;
}

#endif