Hi! On 2011-11-04 6:12:04, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > - fsync works on any fd and does not require a writeable one, > correct the EBADF error code explanation. The problem is, while this is true for Linux, that's not a safe portable assumption to make on POSIX in general as that behaviour is not specified and as such is implementation specific, some Unix systems do actually fail on read-only file descriptors, for example: <http://h30097.www3.hp.com/docs/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V50_HTML/MAN/MAN2/0033____.HTM> <http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v6r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf1/fsync.htm> So if this part of the patch gets applied it would be nice to add a note stating this is Linux specific behaviour, and that other systems might still fail on such condition. regards, guillem -- 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
