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From: Alex Riesen <Alexander.Riesen@synopsys.com>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:33:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020710063346.GD32293@riesen-pc.gr05.synopsys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1020709095544.27285A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We have
> opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a file descriptor.
> If the directory was properly opened, one would never attempt to
> fsync() it.

It's the libc which defines it. Theere no syscall "opendir". How you think
you can return what sus defines as "DIR*" from the kernel?

offtopic: on aix you can do this: "cat ."


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-07-10  6:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-09 13:49 Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 14:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:08   ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 15:06     ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 16:56       ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 17:22         ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 18:58           ` [NFS] " Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-09 19:11           ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:13             ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:39               ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories " David Dillow
2002-07-09 19:59               ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories " Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:50                 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-10  6:33   ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2002-07-10 11:20     ` Richard B. Johnson
     [not found] <20020715075221.GC21470@uncarved.com>
2002-07-15 12:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-15 13:35   ` Matthias Andree
     [not found]     ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715133507.GF32155@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 14:49       ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 15:18         ` Matthias Andree
     [not found]           ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715151833.GA22828@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 16:10             ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 18:16               ` Matthias Andree
     [not found]                 ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715181650.GA20665@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 18:56                   ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 20:50                     ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:16         ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:19           ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:45             ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:38           ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 16:55             ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 20:17               ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-16  1:40                 ` jw schultz
2002-07-15 15:20     ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-15 15:35       ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:14         ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.

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