fdisk: sleep-after-sync and fsync usage

It seems that sleep() after sync() is unnecessary legacy. It's very
probably unnecessary since kernel 1.3.20. For example the libparted
does not to use sleep() at all.

It seems that more important is fsync() usage in fdisks. For more
details see

  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105545785306867&w=3
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=105545848607353&w=3
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276369

Currently we use fsync() in fdisk only. This patch also add fsync() to
sfdisk and cfdisk.

Addresses: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=276369
Addresses: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502639
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fdisk/cfdisk.c b/fdisk/cfdisk.c
index 0405e1261..eec16893c 100644
--- a/fdisk/cfdisk.c
+++ b/fdisk/cfdisk.c
@@ -406,9 +406,11 @@ partition_type_text(int i) {
 
 static void
 fdexit(int ret) {
-    if (opened)
+    if (opened) {
+	if (changed)
+		fsync(fd);
 	close(fd);
-
+    }
     if (changed) {
 	fprintf(stderr, _("Disk has been changed.\n"));
 #if 0
@@ -1912,12 +1914,10 @@ write_part_table(void) {
     if (is_bdev) {
 #ifdef BLKRRPART
 	 sync();
-	 sleep(2);
 	 if (!ioctl(fd,BLKRRPART))
 	      changed = TRUE;
 #endif
 	 sync();
-	 sleep(4);
 
 	 clear_warning();
 	 if (changed)
diff --git a/fdisk/fdisk.c b/fdisk/fdisk.c
index af525badd..5ef24f665 100644
--- a/fdisk/fdisk.c
+++ b/fdisk/fdisk.c
@@ -2519,7 +2519,6 @@ reread_partition_table(int leave) {
 	i = fstat(fd, &statbuf);
 	if (i == 0 && S_ISBLK(statbuf.st_mode)) {
 		sync();
-		sleep(2);
 #ifdef BLKRRPART
 		printf(_("Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.\n"));
 		i = ioctl(fd, BLKRRPART);
@@ -2550,7 +2549,6 @@ reread_partition_table(int leave) {
 
 		printf(_("Syncing disks.\n"));
 		sync();
-		sleep(4);		/* for sync() */
 		exit(!!i);
 	}
 }
diff --git a/fdisk/sfdisk.c b/fdisk/sfdisk.c
index 0652cfa3a..6ac91f07b 100644
--- a/fdisk/sfdisk.c
+++ b/fdisk/sfdisk.c
@@ -806,14 +806,13 @@ reread_disk_partition(char *dev, int fd) {
     printf(_("Re-reading the partition table ...\n"));
     fflush(stdout);
     sync();
-    sleep(3);			/* superfluous since 1.3.20 */
 
     if (reread_ioctl(fd) && is_blockdev(fd))
       do_warn(_("The command to re-read the partition table failed.\n"
 	        "Run partprobe(8), kpartx(8) or reboot your system now,\n"
 	        "before using mkfs\n"));
 
-    if (close(fd)) {
+    if (fsync(fd) || close(fd)) {
 	perror(dev);
 	do_warn(_("Error closing %s\n"), dev);
     }
@@ -3103,6 +3102,5 @@ do_fdisk(char *dev){
 	 "(See fdisk(8).)\n"));
 
     sync();			/* superstition */
-    sleep(3);
     exit(exit_status);
 }