Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:08:43 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts | From | Trond Myklebust <> |
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>>>>> " " == Richard B Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes:
> I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We > have opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a > file descriptor. If the directory was properly opened, one > would never attempt to fsync() it.
fsync() is supported on directories on local filesystems as a way of ensuring that changes (due to file creation etc) are committed to disk. Where is the POSIX violation in that?
There is no reason why NFS, which ensures this anyway, should not adhere to this convention.
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