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

[Alexey Kodanev]

On 06/23/2016 02:54 PM, Cyril Hrubis wrote:
> 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.
In case of NFS?