From: Sandy Harris <pashley@storm.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories on NFS mounts
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 11:29:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D32EA64.5E885536@storm.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1026752140.30454.17.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 16:38, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> >
> > > Linus has explicitly stated what fsync on a directory does, during
> > > several of the thousands of cycling repeated flamewars generated by MTA
> > > authors
> > >
> > > If that isnt definitive I don't know what is
> >
> > Documentation/fsync.txt would be better.
>
> Documentation/fs/fsync.txt or similar sounds a good idea
Why not just pout it in the man page for fsync?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-15 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20020715075221.GC21470@uncarved.com>
2002-07-15 12:45 ` [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts 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 ` Sandy Harris [this message]
2002-07-15 20:17 ` 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.
2002-07-09 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
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