On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:56:02AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Because it's inconsistent. An O_SYNC fd never has outstanding writeout. > Except for in this one new and special time window between a setfl() > and the next write(). It might actually have outstanding writes for as long as it eventually takes the writeback code to push them out. O_SYNC only does a range writeout for the area that was written. -- 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
