Re: [CHECKER] ext3 bug in ftruncate() with O_SYNC?

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 03:51, Andrew Morton wrote:

> The spec says "Write I/O operations on the file descriptor shall complete
> as defined by synchronized I/O file integrity completion".
> 
> Is ftruncate a "write I/O operation"?  No.

SUS seems to be pretty clear on this.  The syscall descriptions for
write(2) and pwrite(2) explicitly describe O_SYNC as requiring
synchronized I/O file integrity completion.  ftruncate() has no such
requirement.

It would certainly be a reasonable thing to do, but I don't think it
strictly counts as a bug that we're not honouring O_SYNC here.

--Stephen


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