[PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts

From: Trond Myklebust (trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 08:49:15 EST

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Hi,

There was a bug reported on the 'exim' user list a couple of months ago:
the Linux NFS client reports -EINVAL if you try to fsync() a directory.

The correct response would be to return a dummy '0' for success, since all
NFS operations that change the directory are supposed to be performed
synchronously on the server anyway...

Cheers,
Trond

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