On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 07:41:34AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > -data is guaranteed to have been transferred. > > +File I/O is done directly to/from user space buffers. ?The > > +\fBO_DIRECT\fP flag alone does make at an effort to transfer > > +data synchronously, but does not give the guarantees of the > > +\fBO_SYNC\fP that data and nessecary data must be transferred. > > Here I wrote "data and necessary metadata". > Okay? Yes. > > ?POSIX provides for three different variants of synchronized I/O, > > ?corresponding to the flags \fBO_SYNC\fP, \fBO_DSYNC\fP and > > -\fBO_RSYNC\fP. > > -Currently (2.1.130) these are all synonymous under Linux. > > +\fBO_RSYNC\fP. ?Currently (2.6.31) Linux only implements the > > +\fBO_SYNC\fP but glibc maps \fBO_DSYNC\fP and \fBO_SYNC\fP to > > +the same numerical value. > > Here, I made it > > but glibc maps O_DSYNC and O_RSYNC to > the same numerical value as O_SYNC. > > Okay? Yes, again much better than my version. > Aside from the changes notes above, and some language clean-ups, I > applied your patch as given, for man-pages-3.23. Thanks a lot. Note that in the meantime I sent patches to implement real O_SYNC/O_DSYNC and I'll send you another update once they get applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
