From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [RFC] write(2) semantics wrt return values and current position Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 20:50:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20150406195050.GO889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20150406153641.GL889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20150406192903.GN889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel , Trond Myklebust , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Chinner , Theodore Ts'o , Miklos Szeredi , Oleg Drokin To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:43486 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752688AbbDFTux (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Apr 2015 15:50:53 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150406192903.GN889@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 08:29:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > It doesn't have to be O_DIRECT; setrlimit(2) from another thread is enough grrr.... s/O_DIRECT/O_APPEND/. Badly edited sentence... O_DIRECT _is_ needed to trigger that, O_APPEND isn't.