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 it we can do better and use noop_fsync() to not confuse userspace > further.
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