Christoph Hellwig wrote: > int generic_write_sync(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count) > { > if (!(file->f_flags & O_SYNC) && !IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host)) > return 0; > return vfs_fsync_range(file, file->f_path.dentry, pos, > pos + count - 1, 1); > } > > and we can look into replacing the datasync flag with something more > meaningfull later through the whole fsync stack. I like that. It looks really clear and self-documenting, if vfs_fsync_range does what it sounds like, which is a nice change. If I've guessed right what that code does, proper O_RSYNC will be easy: int generic_sync_before_read(struct file *file, loff_t pos, loff_t count) { int is_sync = ((file->f_flags & O_SYNC) || IS_SYNC(file->f_mapping->host)); int is_dsync = is_sync || (file->f_flags & O_DSYNC); if (!is_dsync || !(file->f_flags & O_RSYNC)) return 0; return vfs_fsync_range(file, file->f_ath.denty, pos, pos + count - 1, is_sync); } (By the way, did I mention Irix has range-fsync and range-fdatasync system calls too :-) (actually fcntls)) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html