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Re: [PATCH,HURD] implement syncfs
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst dot de>
- To: Pino Toscano <toscano dot pino at tiscali dot it>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, bug-hurd at gnu dot org, roland at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:17:35 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH,HURD] implement syncfs
- References: <201211191800.51375.toscano.pino@tiscali.it>
> +/* Make all changes done to all files on the file system associated
> + with FD actually appear on disk. */
> +int
> +syncfs (int fd)
> +{
> + /* This is not actually synchronous; we don't wait. */
> + error_t err = HURD_DPORT_USE (fd, __file_syncfs (port, 0, 0));
Note that syncfs in Linux actually does wait for completion of the writeback,
that's the whole point of the syscall.