From 8ae0b77811d97552b3b3c745e97de18849583bf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:55:41 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fix fsync(dir) return value for ram-based filesystems
Any filesystem which is using simple_dir_operations will retunr -EINVAL for
fsync() on a directory. Make it return zero instead.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
fs/libfs.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 5025563e7379..58101dff2c66 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ struct file_operations simple_dir_operations = {
.llseek = dcache_dir_lseek,
.read = generic_read_dir,
.readdir = dcache_readdir,
+ .fsync = simple_sync_file,
};
struct inode_operations simple_dir_inode_operations = {