On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:22:31PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:10:54PM +0200, Antti Salmela wrote: > > Tags: patch
> > diff -ur prelink-0.0.20050901/src/cache.c
> > prelink-0.0.20050901.new/src/cache.c
> > --- prelink-0.0.20050901/src/cache.c 2004-10-01 22:29:08.000000000 +0300
> > +++ prelink-0.0.20050901.new/src/cache.c 2006-02-21
> > 15:56:33.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -608,6 +608,7 @@
> > if (write (fd, &cache, sizeof (cache)) != sizeof (cache)
> > || write (fd, data, len) != len
> > || fchmod (fd, 0644)
> > + || fsync (fd)
> > || close (fd)
> > || rename (prelink_cache_tmp, prelink_cache))
> > {
> > diff -ur prelink-0.0.20050901/src/dso.c prelink-0.0.20050901.new/src/dso.c
> > --- prelink-0.0.20050901/src/dso.c 2005-07-18 14:15:39.000000000 +0300
> > +++ prelink-0.0.20050901.new/src/dso.c 2006-02-21 15:57:17.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -1601,6 +1601,8 @@
> > }
> >
> > elf_end (dso->elf);
> > + if (dso_is_rdwr (dso))
> > + fsync (dso->fd);
> > close (dso->fd);
> > if (dso->elfro)
> > {
> Um, if you have to call fsync to ensure the filesystem does the write before
> the rename, isn't that a filesystem bug? I.e., isn't it a violation of
> POSIX filesystem semantics for these ops to *not* be processed in order?
Also, what filesystem and mount options are you using for / and /usr,
please?
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