Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:44:44PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:

>    Perhaps we ought to add a couple extra open flags, O_BARRIER_BEFORE and
>    O_BARRIER_AFTER, and rename3(), etc functions that take flags arguments?
>    Or maybe a new set of syscalls like barrier(file1, file2) and
>    fbarrier(fd1, fd2), which cause all pending changes (perhaps limit to this
>    process?) to the file at fd1 to occur before any successive changes (again
>    limited to this process?) to the file at fd2.

That's an option, but what would benefit? If rename is expected to 
preserve ordering (which I think it has to, in order to avoid breaking 
existing code) then are there any other interesting use cases?

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