On the silliness of close() giving EDQUOT

[Robert Thurlow]

In <BZS.90Oct20172142 at world.std.com> bzs at world.std.com (Barry Shein) writes:
>I assume by NFS you mean the NFS from Sun. Writes are always
>synchronous in NFS or must appear to be (or are non-compliant and
>you're on your own.) So fsync() for writes is a no-op and irrelevant
>in that case.

This is exactly wrong;  Sun ships a biod(8) daemon to support read-ahead
and write-behind async I/O over NFS, and fsync() is certainly needed.

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Rob T
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