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| author | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-01-28 14:38:25 -0700 |
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| committer | Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> | 2010-01-28 14:38:25 -0700 |
| commit | 0ada0a73120c28cc432bcdbac061781465c2f48f (patch) | |
| tree | d17cadd4ea47e25d9e48e7d409a39c84268fbd27 /arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h | |
| parent | 6016a363f6b56b46b24655bcfc0499b715851cf3 (diff) | |
| parent | 92dcffb916d309aa01778bf8963a6932e4014d07 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.33-rc5' into secretlab/test-devicetree
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h index 2a52333a062..e482fe90fe8 100644 --- a/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h +++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ #define O_APPEND 0x0008 -#define O_SYNC 0x0010 +#define O_DSYNC 0x0010 /* used to be O_SYNC, see below */ #define O_NONBLOCK 0x0080 #define O_CREAT 0x0100 /* not fcntl */ #define O_TRUNC 0x0200 /* not fcntl */ @@ -18,6 +18,21 @@ #define O_NOCTTY 0x0800 /* not fcntl */ #define FASYNC 0x1000 /* fcntl, for BSD compatibility */ #define O_LARGEFILE 0x2000 /* allow large file opens */ +/* + * Before Linux 2.6.33 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 0x4000 +#define O_SYNC (__O_SYNC|O_DSYNC) #define O_DIRECT 0x8000 /* direct disk access hint */ #define F_GETLK 14 |