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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 23:18:04 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:41:54PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> 
> > The second call will do the work if there's something to do. If somebody
> > did an open/read/writes/close in the middle, it should do the work as
> > usual. I actually can see a problem if you use the different inodes, but
> > that will be sorted out too automatically as soon as we stop pinning the
> > inodes.
> 
> 
> Sigh... Try BLKFLSBUF + write() + BLKFLSBUF.

write will return -EIO and second BLKFLSBUF will do nothing.

Andrea