Commit 8ae0b778 authored Jun 25, 2005 by Hugh Dickins Committed by Linus Torvalds Jun 25, 2005

[PATCH] fix fsync(dir) return value for ram-based filesystems



Any filesystem which is using simple_dir_operations will retunr -EINVAL for
fsync() on a directory.  Make it return zero instead.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

parent 6f9beccb

fs/libfs.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct file_operations simple_dir_operations = {
		.llseek = dcache_dir_lseek,
		.read = generic_read_dir,
		.readdir = dcache_readdir,
		.fsync = simple_sync_file,
		};

		struct inode_operations simple_dir_inode_operations = {

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