/*
* flushb.c --- This routine flushes the disk buffers for a disk
+ *
+ * Copyright 1997, 2000, by Theodore Ts'o.
+ *
+ * This program may be used under the provisions of the GNU Public
+ * License, *EXCEPT* that a binary copy of the executable may not be
+ * packaged as a part of binary package which is distributed as part
+ * of a Linux distribution. (Yes, this violates the Debian Free
+ * Software Guidelines of restricting its field of use. That's the
+ * point. I don't want this program being distributed in Debian,
+ * because I don't care to support it, and the maintainer, Yann
+ * Dirson, doesn't seem to pay attention to my wishes on this matter.
+ * So I'm deliberately adding this clause so it violates the Debian
+ * Free Software Guidelines to force him to take it out. (What part
+ * of THIS IS FOR MY OWN USE don't you understand? And no, I'm going
+ * to write a man page for it either. And don't file a bug about it
+ * or bug me about it.) If this doesn't work, I'll have to remove it
+ * from the upstream source distribution at the next release. End of
+ * Rant. :-)
+ *
+ * (BTW, use of flushb on some older 2.2 kernels on a heavily loaded
+ * system will corrupt filesystems.)
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+#include <sys/mount.h>
+#include "../misc/nls-enable.h"
-#include <linux/fs.h>
-
-#ifdef __STDC__
-#define NOARGS void
-#else
-#define NOARGS
-#define const
+/* For Linux, define BLKFLSBUF if necessary */
+#if (!defined(BLKFLSBUF) && defined(__linux__))
+#define BLKFLSBUF _IO(0x12,97) /* flush buffer cache */
#endif
const char *progname;
-static void usage(NOARGS)
+static void usage(void)
{
- fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s disk\n", progname);
+ fprintf(stderr, _("Usage: %s disk\n"), progname);
exit(1);
}
* Note: to reread the partition table, use the ioctl
* BLKRRPART instead of BLKFSLBUF.
*/
+#ifdef BLKFLSBUF
if (ioctl(fd, BLKFLSBUF, 0) < 0) {
- perror("ioctl");
+ perror("ioctl BLKFLSBUF");
exit(1);
}
return 0;
+#else
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ _("BLKFLSBUF ioctl not supported! Can't flush buffers.\n"));
+ return 1;
+#endif
}