2009-04-02 00:36:00

by Kevin Coffman

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Subject: [PATCH 1/2] cacheio: return any original error from qword_eol

From: Kevin Coffman <[email protected]>

If the initial fflush() fails in qword_eol, log the failure
and return the indication of the original failure, not the
successful cover-up.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Coffman <[email protected]>
---

support/nfs/cacheio.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)


diff --git a/support/nfs/cacheio.c b/support/nfs/cacheio.c
index f303734..6a6ed5a 100644
--- a/support/nfs/cacheio.c
+++ b/support/nfs/cacheio.c
@@ -154,15 +154,21 @@ int qword_eol(FILE *f)

fprintf(f,"\n");
err = fflush(f);
+ if (err) {
+ xlog_warn("qword_eol: fflush failed: errno %d (%s)",
+ errno, strerror(errno));
+ }
/*
* We must send one line (and one line only) in a single write
* call. In case of a write error, libc may accumulate the
* unwritten data and try to write it again later, resulting in a
* multi-line write. So we must explicitly ask it to throw away
- * any such cached data:
+ * any such cached data. But we return any original error
+ * indication to the caller.
*/
__fpurge(f);
- return fflush(f);
+ fflush(f);
+ return err;
}