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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 09:41:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> >
> > Logical, isn't it?
>
>   No.  I don't see why I should opendir() a directory, fsync()
> that handle, and closedir() the handle.  I would definitely prefer:
>
>        lsync(dirpath)

Btw, you don't have to do opendir() - that just wastes time. Just do
something like

	int lsync(char *path)
	{
	        int err, fd;
	        fd = open(path, 0);
	        if (fd >= 0) {
	                err = fsync(fd);
	                close(fd);
	        }
	        return err;
	}

and you're done. But it won't do the symlink thing...

		Linus

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