Re: [PATCH 1/3] quotactl.2: clarification regarding Q_XQUOTASYNC, which is present but no-op in recent kernels

Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-11-10T07:18:12Z

Hi Eugene,

On 11/09/2016 06:30 PM, Eugene Syromyatnikov wrote:
> ---
> man2/quotactl.2 | 16 ++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Thanks. Applied.

Cheers,

Michael

> 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,
>

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