Re: Linux 2.4.10-pre11

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:40:00 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > Sigh... Try BLKFLSBUF + write() + BLKFLSBUF.
>
> write will return -EIO and second BLKFLSBUF will do nothing.

Now compare that with behaviour of -pre10 (not to mention the
(in)sanity of "this ioctl() will make all IO on the fd fail until
somebody opens the same file" semantics).

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