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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:40:41 +0200
From: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
To: Giel van Schijndel <me@mortis.eu>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: watchdog simple example: don't fail on fsync()
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Hi Giel,

> Don't terminate the watchdog daemon when fsync() fails because no
> watchdog driver actually implements the fsync() syscall.

Wouldn't it be simpler then to just do an fsync without checking the error-result?

Kind regards,
Wim.