Re: why does fsync() on a tmpfs directory give EINVAL?

[Chris Friesen]

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> No need to check the list: any filesystem using simple_dir_operations
> is using dcache_readdir, which implies there's no storage to be synced.
> And we all agree that success is a more helpful retval than -EINVAL
> when there's nothing for fsync to do.  Here's a patch if you haven't
> done it already....

Thanks for the input.  I wasn't positive the change would be benign, so 
 I was waiting for the discussion to resolve itself.

Chris
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