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

Re: fdatasync module proposal

2011-07-22 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Paul, > Surely coreutils is not the only program that will have problems > with fdatasync on Mac OS. How about the following gnulib patches? > One is for fdatasync, the other for its tests. Looks mostly good. Just small comments: > --- a/lib/unistd.in.h > +++ b/lib/unistd.in.h > @@ -483,6 +4

fdatasync module proposal

2011-07-22 Thread Paul Eggert
Surely coreutils is not the only program that will have problems with fdatasync on Mac OS. How about the following gnulib patches? One is for fdatasync, the other for its tests. >From d5c4b4b9266db16c8477a94640290e0b662cee93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:00