Re: [PATCH 1/4] dpkg: On Linux initiate writeback of unpacked files ASAP

To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org, Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] dpkg: On Linux initiate writeback of unpacked files ASAP
From: Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 11:26:13 +0100
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 12:50:09AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> The sync_file_range call has been available since Linux 2.6.17.
> On non-Linux systems we can skip it.

It still should check for ENOSYS instead of bailing out.

Bastian

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