-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/13/2014 09:12 AM, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:44:55 -0500 Phillip Susi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I think this is a bug in gnulib rather than eatmydata. fsync() >> can't be expected to report errors that may have happened when it >> doesn't actually try to do anything. In other words, doing >> nothing can not fail, and should not be expected to. I have >> emailed gnulib about fixing it on their end. > > And what did they reply?
They could not provide any reason why any program would ever care about the behavior or why the test for it was included in gnulib, but insisted that it should work that way and so eatmydata should be patched. Personally I think they are insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJUjkBtAAoJENRVrw2cjl5R5fsH/Ar7escYriZl1HjsArDR/Ofv lVLe1qBNEJzet5mKixQjF9twX+0S1/X+rcJqd2bW6ME0dyBfbkKYRcYrvKiFs1PD xxae/V6rXgtffrmNHZGNPR94BG4Z0+zZT73X8OVDw8YmSWgOQcUqS0IPDzmSTlgg VGefZhfqiFiYj2w2AS5aR5E57uGYjueBm8JICRNqunefaTNSlAAonk08dijrR/BK QUp8eohaRK8gFVJfOg+PzGWljHrqDv1UeBnLqoz7y3He1nO+UfQCCyn2XFKDJ8lT hsp125etCTu3dyh0xvLO2ssgojrJfZJuaThYVjS1EDDZ+y6R2sKivUylnrK1A9I= =b7P/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
