Re: Fix fseek() detection of unseekable files on WIN32

On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 08:20:27PM +0900, Michael Paquier wrote:
> I am not sure, TBH. As presented, the two GetFileType() calls in
> _pgftello64() and _pgfseeko64() ignore the case where it returns
> FILE_TYPE_UNKNOWN and GetLastError() has something else than
> NO_ERROR. The code would return EINVAL for all the errors happening.
> Perhaps that's fine, though I am wondering if we should report
> something more exact, based on _dosmaperr(GetLastError())?

In short, I was thinking among the lines of something like the
attached, where I have invented a pgwin32_get_file_type() that acts as
a wrapper of GetFileType() in a new file called win32common.c, with
all the error handling we would use between fstat(), fseeko() and
ftello() centralized in a single code path.

The refactoring with win32common.c had better be separated into its
own patch, at the end, if using an approach like that.
--
Michael