On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 09:32:13AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > [adding bug-gnulib] > > On 10/25/2011 03:44 AM, Jiri Denemark wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 16:44:49 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >>Commit 1726a73 hacked around MacOS' lack of fdatasync, since > >>gnulib did not have it at the time. But now that we use newer > >>gnulib, we can avoid the hack. > >> > >>* bootstrap.conf (gnulib_modules): Add fdatasync. > >>* configure.ac (AC_CHECK_FUNCS_ONCE): Drop our own check. > >>--- > >> bootstrap.conf | 1 + > >> configure.ac | 5 +---- > >> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > > >ACK > > > >BTW, are there any plans on enhancing gnulib fsync module to provide a > >replacement for certain versions of OS X? Although they provide fsync, it > >doesn't really sync anything and one needs to do some ioctl hackery to really > >achieve what fsync should do. > > Any quick pointers to example code using that ioctl? Then again, > I'll probably find them with a quick google search myself. I learnt about the problem from http://www.flamingspork.com/talks/2007/06/eat_my_data.odp pages 100-119 are the "fun" part of the story Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list