2002-07-15 16:21:49

by Sandy Harris

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-rc1/2.5.25 provide dummy fsync() routine fordirectories on NFS mounts

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 16:38, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> > Alan Cox <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Linus has explicitly stated what fsync on a directory does, during
> > > several of the thousands of cycling repeated flamewars generated by MTA
> > > authors
> > >
> > > If that isnt definitive I don't know what is
> >
> > Documentation/fsync.txt would be better.
>
> Documentation/fs/fsync.txt or similar sounds a good idea

Why not just pout it in the man page for fsync?