[PATCH] xfs_io: actually issue 0 size writes
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Wed Aug 26 17:11:06 CDT 2009
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 05:15:50PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> While testing some stuff in generic_write_checks() in the
> kernel I realized that you can't actually use xfs_io to send
> a 0-byte write in. This is actually a condition worth testing:
>
> If count is zero and fd refers to a regular file,
> then write() may return a failure status if one of
> the errors below is detected. If no errors are
> detected, 0 will be returned without causing any
> other effect.
>
> So fix that up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
Any reason you didn't put this in despite two positive reviews?
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