From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL?
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:28:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B2DDFA.8020200@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0506171419570.10248@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
Hugh Dickins wrote:
> No need to check the list: any filesystem using simple_dir_operations
> is using dcache_readdir, which implies there's no storage to be synced.
> And we all agree that success is a more helpful retval than -EINVAL
> when there's nothing for fsync to do. Here's a patch if you haven't
> done it already....
Thanks for the input. I wasn't positive the change would be benign, so
I was waiting for the discussion to resolve itself.
Chris
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-17 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 20:07 why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL? Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 20:57 ` Andrew Morton
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 [this message]
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