[Libguestfs] [PATCH] fuse: provide a stub "flush" implementation (RHBZ#660687).

Pino Toscano ptoscano at redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 17:59:38 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Thursday 12 December 2013 16:28:31 Pino Toscano wrote:
> It seems that FUSE can invoke flush to make sure the pending changes
> (e.g. to the attributes) of a file are set. Since a missing flush
> implementation is handled as if it were returning ENOSYS, this can
> cause issues later.
> 
> To overcome this, just provide a stub implementation which does
> nothing, since we have nothing to do and don't want to have FUSE
> error out.
> 
> Furthermore, uncomment the timestamp checks in test-fuse.sh, since now
> they should be working fine.

Apparently this way not the right fix for rh#660687 (although the 
addition of the patch did not harm). I should have hopefully found the 
right cause of it, will follow-up with the fix.

-- 
Pino Toscano




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