On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:51:03PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > No, that's not a good idea. This would mean a program compiled with > newer headers is using O_SYNC which isn't known to old kernels and > ignored. Such programs will then not even get the current O_DSYNC > benefits. Ok, let's agree on how to proceed: once 2.6.31 is out we will do the following - do a global s/O_SYNC/O_DSYNC/g over the whole kernel tree - add a this to include/asm-generic/fcntl.h and in modified form to arch headers not using it: #ifndef O_FULLSYNC #define O_FULLSYNC 02000000 #endif #ifndef O_RSYNC #define O_RSYNC 04000000 #endif #define O_SYNC (O_FULLSYNC|O_DSYNC) - during the normal merge window I will add a real implementation for for O_FULLSYNC and O_RSYNC P.S. better naming suggestions for O_FULLSYNC welcome -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
