Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11

Alexander Viro
2001-09-20T21:39:59Z

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > Sigh... Try BLKFLSBUF + write() + BLKFLSBUF.
>
> write will return -EIO and second BLKFLSBUF will do nothing.

Now compare that with behaviour of -pre10 (not to mention the
(in)sanity of "this ioctl() will make all IO on the fd fail until
somebody opens the same file" semantics).