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Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 11:20:26 +1200
From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.8-pre3 fsync entire path (+reiserfs fsync semantic change patch)
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On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:15:59PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

    <shrug> credentials cache. 2.5 fodder. Notice that with NFS you
    don't have fsync for directories. At all. So that's not a problem
    in that particular case - you can pass NULL on all subsequent
    iterations.  On the first step you need struct file * - NFS needs
    credentials to pass to the server.

How about passing NULL then for now? --- and explicitly requiring
->fsync accept NULL for the first argument and ignore it?  It would be
nice to know that this is the case then though, because we could stop
immediately.



  --cw