Chris Friesen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> The man page for fsync() suggests that it is necessary to call it on the
> directory fd.
yup.
> However, in the case of tmpfs, fsync() on the file completes, but on the
> directory it returns -1 with errno==EINVAL.
bad.
> Is there any particular reason for this?
nope.
> Would a patch that makes it
> just return successfully without doing anything be accepted?
yup.
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