Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:22:52 +0100 (BST)

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> > This is a development tree. It doesnt have a stable binary API, now instead
> > of bitching how about saying "nice Linus thank you for stopping NFS from
> > losing data without an error message on NFS file closes" ?
>
> Let me repeat: I don't care about the binary API. I care about the
> source API. And that was broken and I haven't seen a reason that
> explains just *how* breaking source compatibility conferred some
> benefit.

Read my paragraph above and fs/nfs/*.c and you'll understand why
the flush entry point is needed. I'm kind of attached to my mailbox
so I happen to think its fine

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