Re: NFS over-quota not detected if utimes() called before fsync()/close()

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 06 Jul 2013, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> But I would expect close() to do an implicit fsync() as well, 
> and return the error if the implicit fsync() didn't succeed (but 
> still closing the file). As I already mentionned, linux behaves 
> this way, and I guess applications expects this behavior.

I would not expect close() to implicitly fsync() the file, and 
I do not think that NetBSD does so.  If the application wants 
fsync-like behaviour then I think the application should call 
fsync().

--apb (Alan Barrett)