/* * flushb.c --- Hides system-dependent information for both syncing a * device to disk and to flush any buffers from disk cache. * * Copyright (C) 2000 Theodore Ts'o. * * %Begin-Header% * This file may be redistributed under the terms of the GNU Library * General Public License, version 2. * %End-Header% */ #include <stdio.h> #if HAVE_ERRNO_H #include <errno.h> #endif #if HAVE_UNISTD_H #include <unistd.h> #endif #if HAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H #include <sys/ioctl.h> #endif #if HAVE_SYS_MOUNT_H #include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/mount.h> /* This may define BLKFLSBUF */ #endif #include "ext2_fs.h" #include "ext2fs.h" /* * For Linux, define BLKFLSBUF and FDFLUSH if necessary, since * not all portable header file does so for us. This really should be * fixed in the glibc header files. (Recent glibcs appear to define * BLKFLSBUF in sys/mount.h, but FDFLUSH still doesn't seem to be * defined anywhere portable.) Until then.... */ #ifdef __linux__ #ifndef BLKFLSBUF #define BLKFLSBUF _IO(0x12,97) /* flush buffer cache */ #endif #ifndef FDFLUSH #define FDFLUSH _IO(2,0x4b) /* flush floppy disk */ #endif #endif /* * This function will sync a device/file, and optionally attempt to * flush the buffer cache. The latter is basically only useful for * system benchmarks and for torturing systems in burn-in tests. :) */ errcode_t ext2fs_sync_device(int fd, int flushb) { /* * We always sync the device in case we're running on old * kernels for which we can lose data if we don't. (There * still is a race condition for those kernels, but this * reduces it greatly.) */ if (fsync (fd) == -1) return errno; if (flushb) { #ifdef BLKFLSBUF if (ioctl (fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0) == 0) return 0; #elif defined(__linux__) #warning BLKFLSBUF not defined #endif #ifdef FDFLUSH return ioctl(fd, FDFLUSH, 0); /* In case this is a floppy */ #elif defined(__linux__) #warning FDFLUSH not defined #endif } return 0; }