Re: [patch 1/1] sys_sync_file_range()

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Thu Mar 30 2006 - 10:28:45 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> + if ((s64)offset < 0)
> + goto out;
> + if ((s64)endbyte < 0)
> + goto out;

loff_t is long long on all arch. This is not need?

> + if (S_ISFIFO(file->f_dentry->d_inode->i_mode)) {
> + ret = -ESPIPE;
> + goto out_put;
> + }

How about to check "if (!file->f_op || !file->f_op->fsync)" or something?

For chrdev is also strange, and in the case of fsync(), it returns -EINVAL.
IMHO it seems there is consistency.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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