From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Hugh Blemings <hab@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:57:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050616135708.4876c379.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42B1DBF1.4020904@nortel.com>
Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:
>
>
> The man page for fsync() suggests that it is necessary to call it on the
> directory fd.
yup.
> However, in the case of tmpfs, fsync() on the file completes, but on the
> directory it returns -1 with errno==EINVAL.
bad.
> Is there any particular reason for this?
nope.
> Would a patch that makes it
> just return successfully without doing anything be accepted?
yup.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 20:07 Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 20:57 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-06-16 22:54 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 1:52 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 1:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 4:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-06-17 13:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-06-17 14:28 ` Chris Friesen
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