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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h index d4d9c9d852c3..3b9cfb39175e 100644 --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/fcntl.h @@ -1,14 +1,12 @@ #ifndef _SPARC_FCNTL_H #define _SPARC_FCNTL_H -/* open/fcntl - O_SYNC is only implemented on blocks devices and on files - located on an ext2 file system */ #define O_APPEND 0x0008 #define FASYNC 0x0040 /* fcntl, for BSD compatibility */ #define O_CREAT 0x0200 /* not fcntl */ #define O_TRUNC 0x0400 /* not fcntl */ #define O_EXCL 0x0800 /* not fcntl */ -#define O_SYNC 0x2000 +#define O_DSYNC 0x2000 /* used to be O_SYNC, see below */ #define O_NONBLOCK 0x4000 #if defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__) #define O_NDELAY 0x0004 @@ -20,6 +18,21 @@ #define O_DIRECT 0x100000 /* direct disk access hint */ #define O_NOATIME 0x200000 #define O_CLOEXEC 0x400000 +/* + * Before Linux 2.6.32 only O_DSYNC semantics were implemented, but using + * the O_SYNC flag. We continue to use the existing numerical value + * for O_DSYNC semantics now, but using the correct symbolic name for it. + * This new value is used to request true Posix O_SYNC semantics. It is + * defined in this strange way to make sure applications compiled against + * new headers get at least O_DSYNC semantics on older kernels. + * + * This has the nice side-effect that we can simply test for O_DSYNC + * wherever we do not care if O_DSYNC or O_SYNC is used. + * + * Note: __O_SYNC must never be used directly. + */ +#define __O_SYNC 0x800000 +#define O_SYNC (__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC) #define F_GETOWN 5 /* for sockets. */ #define F_SETOWN 6 /* for sockets. */ |