[uml-devel] [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories

Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories. While fsync(2) is allowed to fail with EINVAL if the filesystem does not support it we can do better and use noop_fsync() to not confuse userspace further. C

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs > because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories. > While fsync(2) is allowed to fail with EINVAL if the filesystem does not > support i

Re: [uml-devel] [PATCH] hostfs: Use noop_fsync for directories

Am 13.01.2015 um 23:19 schrieb Christoph Hellwig: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Daniel reported that dpkg(1) dies if the root filesystem is a hostfs >> because it does not expect fsync(2) to fail with EINVAL on directories. >> While fsync(2) is allowed to