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From: Eugene Syromyatnikov <evgsyr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] quotactl.2: clarification regarding Q_XQUOTASYNC, which is present but no-op in recent kernels
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 20:30:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161109173036.GA19381@obsidian> (raw)

---
 man2/quotactl.2 |   16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man2/quotactl.2 b/man2/quotactl.2
index 2fc791f..c68b44f 100644
--- a/man2/quotactl.2
+++ b/man2/quotactl.2
@@ -657,13 +657,17 @@ Quotas must have already been turned off.
 The
 .I id
 argument is ignored.
-.PP
-There is no command equivalent to
-.B Q_SYNC
-for XFS since
+.TP
+.B Q_XQUOTASYNC
+This command was an XFS quota equivalent to
+.IR Q_SYNC ,
+.\" 4b217ed9e30f94b6e8e5e262020ef0ceab6113af
+but it is no-op since Linux 3.4, as
 .BR sync (1)
-writes quota information to disk (in addition to the other filesystem
-metadata that it writes out).
+writes quota information to disk now (in addition to the other filesystem
+metadata that it writes out). The
+.IR special ", " id " and " addr
+arguments are ignored.
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .LP
 On success,
-- 
1.7.10.4

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             reply	other threads:[~2016-11-09 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-09 17:30 Eugene Syromyatnikov [this message]
2016-11-10  7:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] quotactl.2: clarification regarding Q_XQUOTASYNC, which is present but no-op in recent kernels Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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