linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Handle error in sync_sb

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Message-ID: <459D095E.4050306@yahoo.fr>
Date:	Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:04:14 +0100
From:	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Handle error in sync_sb_inodes()

Andrew Morton a écrit :
> There's a lot of sloppiness in there.  Do these two patches fix things up?
>   

Still no luck :-(
You managed to propagate the return value up to the
highest level (sync()), but as it's "void sync()" the return
value is dropped.
When msync() comes after it finds nothing in the mapping
flags.

Cheers.

-- 
Guillaume

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