[PATCH] notmuch-dump: use fsync instead of fdatasync
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Thu May 8 04:57:07 PDT 2014
Since the file size will have changed, there is no performance benefit
to calling fdatasync. Somewhat surprisingly, using fdatasync
apparently causes portability problems on FreeBSD.
---
notmuch-dump.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/notmuch-dump.c b/notmuch-dump.c
index 2849eab..887a208 100644
--- a/notmuch-dump.c
+++ b/notmuch-dump.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ notmuch_database_dump (notmuch_database_t *notmuch,
}
if (output_file_name) {
- ret = fdatasync (outfd);
+ ret = fsync (outfd);
if (ret) {
fprintf (stderr, "Error syncing %s to disk: %s\n",
name_for_error, strerror (errno));
--
1.9.2
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