linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 11/10] pipe: Add fsync() support [ver #2]

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Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 17:29:51 -0400
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>, raven@...maw.net,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        keyrings@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 11/10] pipe: Add fsync() support [ver #2]

On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 12:57 PM David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> pipe: Add fsync() support
>
> The keyrings testsuite needs the ability to wait for all the outstanding
> notifications in the queue to have been processed so that it can then go
> through them to find out whether the notifications it expected have been
> emitted.

Can't you just do

    ioctl(fd, FIONREAD, &count);

in a loop instead? "No paperwork. Just sprinkle some msleep() crack on
him, and let's get out of here"

               Linus