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tools/fw_env: use fsync to ensure that data is physically stored

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Closing a file descriptor does not guarantee that the data has been
successfully saved to disk, as the kernel might defer the write.

Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <mhei@heimpold.de>
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Michael Heimpold 2013-05-20 21:34:42 +02:00 committed by Tom Rini
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@ -1088,7 +1088,19 @@ static int flash_io (int mode)
rc = flash_write (fd_current, fd_target, dev_target); rc = flash_write (fd_current, fd_target, dev_target);
if (fsync (fd_current)) {
fprintf (stderr,
"fsync failed on %s: %s\n",
DEVNAME (dev_current), strerror (errno));
}
if (HaveRedundEnv) { if (HaveRedundEnv) {
if (fsync (fd_target)) {
fprintf (stderr,
"fsync failed on %s: %s\n",
DEVNAME (dev_current), strerror (errno));
}
if (close (fd_target)) { if (close (fd_target)) {
fprintf (stderr, fprintf (stderr,
"I/O error on %s: %s\n", "I/O error on %s: %s\n",