Re: bug#9141: fdatasync module proposal

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Eggert
On 09/16/11 11:28, Eric Blake wrote: > Do we know this to be the case, or are you just going off of web searches? The latter. I just now tried to find that stuff again, and couldn't, so let's just ignore it for now. If the problem turns up again we can fix it later. The whole fsync/fdatasync/O_

Re: bug#9141: fdatasync module proposal

2011-09-16 Thread Eric Blake
On 07/22/2011 03:13 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: Surely coreutils is not the only program that will have problems with fdatasync on Mac OS. How about the following gnulib patches? Portability problems fixed by Gnulib: @itemize +@item +This function is present but undeclared and ineffective on