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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: fsync() madness
From:       Sami Liedes <sliedes () cc ! hut ! fi>
Date:       2008-04-20 2:17:08
Message-ID: 20080420021707.GA8760 () nun4 ! kyla ! fi
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On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 06:23:36PM +0300, Sami Liedes wrote:
> to several seconds. I did think from that the problem was more
> pervasive though, I've been hooking gdb to kwin and kded and setting a
> breakpoint to fsync() for a few minutes in normal use and haven't yet
> seen it break. I think I need to investigate further what causes them
> to fsync() and when they do that. Perhaps it was something related to
> kgetting from a SMB share or something.

The problem with my tests was that I was only setting a breakpoint to
fsync() and not fdatasync(). KSaveFile::close() fdatasync()s always.
This seems wrong to me.

	Sami

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