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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2008-08-29 17:13:15 +0300
committerColin Walters <walters@verbum.org>2008-10-01 14:59:51 -0400
commit6531968a0b62959633627f9a74a6f19f2741261d (patch)
treeec8bf1cbc87e975110e5c86cec1062dec3820b65
parent4fb160094526f57a7cc44deb63ba0f2c76f0384f (diff)
Bug 17352: synchronize the file before renaming
Dbus is doing atomic file updates by copying them, changing the copy, and re-naming them. However, it does not synchronize the file before re-naming, which results in corruption in case of unclean reboots. The reason for this is that file-systems have write-back cache and they postpone writing data to the media. This patch adds the missed fsync() for the Unix part. I do not have windows so cannot provide a windows port fix. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
-rw-r--r--dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
index 1e45649f..18b4967b 100644
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
@@ -2224,6 +2224,15 @@ _dbus_string_save_to_file (const DBusString *str,
total += bytes_written;
}
+ if (fsync(fd))
+ {
+ dbus_set_error (error, _dbus_error_from_errno (errno),
+ "Could not synchronize file %s: %s",
+ tmp_filename_c, _dbus_strerror (errno));
+
+ goto out;
+ }
+
if (!_dbus_close (fd, NULL))
{
dbus_set_error (error, _dbus_error_from_errno (errno),