Re: [Exim] Directory updates with Linux 2.6

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Michael Haardt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Directory updates with Linux 2.6
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Michael Haardt wrote:

> since nobody had any opinion concerning ignoring EINVAL as fsync()
> result: Philip, how about changing the code to do just that? I don't
> see why Exim should panic on EINVAL:
>
>        EROFS, EINVAL
>               fd  is  bound  to a special file which does not support synchro-
>               nization.

>
> Which directories may be. It's a hack on top of a hack.


Seems reasonable for the directory fsync (not for the file fsync, of
course). Noted.


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