Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:15:59PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

    <shrug> credentials cache. 2.5 fodder. Notice that with NFS you
    don't have fsync for directories. At all. So that's not a problem
    in that particular case - you can pass NULL on all subsequent
    iterations.  On the first step you need struct file * - NFS needs
    credentials to pass to the server.

How about passing NULL then for now? --- and explicitly requiring
->fsync accept NULL for the first argument and ignore it?  It would be
nice to know that this is the case then though, because we could stop
immediately.

  --cw