[PATCH] notmuch-dump: use fsync instead of fdatasync
authorDavid Bremner <david@tethera.net>
Thu, 8 May 2014 11:57:07 +0000 (20:57 +0900)
committerW. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Fri, 7 Nov 2014 18:02:22 +0000 (10:02 -0800)
6a/d0d5dc7abf228d557779010b4f19b853b3e843 [new file with mode: 0644]

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+Subject: [PATCH] notmuch-dump: use fsync instead of fdatasync\r
+Date: Thu,  8 May 2014 20:57:07 +0900\r
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+Since the file size will have changed, there is no performance benefit\r
+to calling fdatasync.  Somewhat surprisingly, using fdatasync\r
+apparently causes portability problems on FreeBSD.\r
+---\r
+ notmuch-dump.c | 2 +-\r
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+\r
+diff --git a/notmuch-dump.c b/notmuch-dump.c\r
+index 2849eab..887a208 100644\r
+--- a/notmuch-dump.c\r
++++ b/notmuch-dump.c\r
+@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ notmuch_database_dump (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,\r
+     }\r
\r
+     if (output_file_name) {\r
+-      ret = fdatasync (outfd);\r
++      ret = fsync (outfd);\r
+       if (ret) {\r
+           fprintf (stderr, "Error syncing %s to disk: %s\n",\r
+                    name_for_error, strerror (errno));\r
+-- \r
+1.9.2\r
+\r