Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:33:46 +0200 | From | Alex Riesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine for directories on NFS mounts |
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On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:06:45AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > I think code that opens a directory as a file is broken. We have > opendir() for that and it returns a DIR pointer, not a file descriptor. > If the directory was properly opened, one would never attempt to > fsync() it.
It's the libc which defines it. Theere no syscall "opendir". How you think you can return what sus defines as "DIR*" from the kernel?
offtopic: on aix you can do this: "cat ."
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