From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 10:06:45 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ager03$jie$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200207091549.15913.trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There was a bug reported on the 'exim' user list a couple of months ago:
> the Linux NFS client reports -EINVAL if you try to fsync() a directory.
>
> The correct response would be to return a dummy '0' for success, since all
> NFS operations that change the directory are supposed to be performed
> synchronously on the server anyway...
>
> Cheers,
> Trond
>
>
Isn't it supposed to return EINVAL if "fd is bound to a file which
doesn't support synchronization..." That's what POSIX 4 says.
Errors:
EBADF fildes is not a valid file descriptor.
EINVAL The file descriptor is valid, but the system doesn't support
fsync on this particular file.
I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We have
opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a file descriptor.
If the directory was properly opened, one would never attempt to
fsync() it.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Windows-2000/Professional isn't.
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Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-09 13:49 [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 14:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-09 15:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 17:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 17:22 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 18:58 ` [NFS] " Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-09 18:58 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-09 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:39 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories " David Dillow
2002-07-09 19:59 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories " Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-09 19:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 19:50 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-15 7:52 ` Sean Hunter
2002-07-15 12:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-15 13:35 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715133507.GF32155@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 14:49 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 15:18 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715151833.GA22828@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 16:10 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 18:16 ` Matthias Andree
[not found] ` <mit.lcs.mail.linux-kernel/20020715181650.GA20665@merlin.emma.line.org>
2002-07-15 18:56 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 20:50 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:19 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:45 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:38 ` Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-15 16:55 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-15 15:29 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories " Sandy Harris
2002-07-15 20:17 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories " Patrick J. LoPresti
2002-07-16 1:40 ` jw schultz
2002-07-15 15:20 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-15 15:35 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-15 16:14 ` Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2002-07-15 12:45 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 15:06 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:08 ` Trond Myklebust
2002-07-10 6:33 ` Alex Riesen
2002-07-10 11:20 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-07-09 14:06 ` Richard B. Johnson [this message]
2002-07-11 10:52 ` Matthias Andree
2002-07-11 11:26 ` Trond Myklebust
[not found] <E17SjDh-00067R-00@usw-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
2002-07-11 19:14 ` Rex Dieter
2002-07-11 20:05 ` Tom McNeal
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2002-07-09 13:49 Trond Myklebust
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