[LTP] [PATCH 2/2] nfs05: rewrite the test, make use of new library

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> >>   
> >> -			dprt("pid[%d]: init_compile(): status = %d\n",
> >> -			     gettid(), status);
> >> -			dprt("we are here %d\n", __LINE__);
> >> -			return status;
> >> +			SAFE_WRITE(1, fd, prog_buf, prog_buf_size);
> >> +			fsync(fd);
> > Why do we fsync(fd) here? Isn't the whole point of this test to find a
> > race conditions?
> 
> And given the fact that we have close(fd) thereafter, should make it 
> useless...

fsync() should cause the page caches to be written to the disk, close()
just frees the associated file descriptor and page caches are written on
background.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz