Re: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Feb 12 2002 - 19:36:15 EST


On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I don't see why it should be different for applications
> > that write data after sync has started.
>
> The guarantee about data written _before_ the sync started is also
> being broken unless I misread the code

Hmm, I guess we will want to fix that part ;)

Rik

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