From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: O_SYNC patches for 2.4.0-test1-ac11 References: <20000609223632.E2621@redhat.com> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 1.5) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 09 Jun 2000 14:51:18 -0700 In-Reply-To: "Stephen C. Tweedie"'s message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2000 22:36:32 +0100" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org, Theodore Ts'o , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds List-ID: "Stephen C. Tweedie" writes: > * Old applications which specified O_SYNC will continue > to get their expected (O_DSYNC) behaviour > > * New applications can specify O_SYNC or O_DSYNC and get > the selected behaviour on new kernels > > * New applications calling either O_SYNC or O_DSYNC will > still get O_SYNC on old kernels. Have you thought about O_RSYNC and whether it is possible/useful to support it separately? -- ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/