Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.4

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> >
> > Logical, isn't it?
>
>   No.  I don't see why I should opendir() a directory, fsync()
> that handle, and closedir() the handle.  I would definitely prefer:
>
>        lsync(dirpath)

Btw, you don't have to do opendir() - that just wastes time. Just do
something like

	int lsync(char *path)
	{
	        int err, fd;
	        fd = open(path, 0);
	        if (fd >= 0) {
	                err = fsync(fd);
	                close(fd);
	        }
	        return err;
	}

and you're done. But it won't do the symlink thing...

		Linus