From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL?
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 14:07:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B1DBF1.4020904@nortel.com> (raw)
The man page for fsync() suggests that it is necessary to call it on the
directory fd.
However, in the case of tmpfs, fsync() on the file completes, but on the
directory it returns -1 with errno==EINVAL.
Is there any particular reason for this? Would a patch that makes it
just return successfully without doing anything be accepted?
Chris
next reply other threads:[~2005-06-16 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-16 20:07 Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-06-16 20:57 ` why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL? Andrew Morton
2005-06-16 22:54 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-16 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 1:52 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-17 1:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-17 4:46 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-06-17 13:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-06-17 14:28 ` Chris Friesen
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