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 ."
next prev 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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