From 1f7683bfcbecbeffa802a1c361e1842db2fff4f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bastien Nocera Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 17:25:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 8/8] Disable fdatasync() usage if PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC is set If the PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC envvar is set to a non-zero value, the fdatasync() call will be skipped, at the expense of data integrity. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70366 --- update-mime-database.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/update-mime-database.c b/update-mime-database.c index c1a6f9f..894ac97 100644 --- a/update-mime-database.c +++ b/update-mime-database.c @@ -936,11 +936,25 @@ set_error_from_errno (GError **error) g_strerror(errsv)); } +static gboolean +sync_enabled(void) +{ + const char *env; + + env = g_getenv("PKGSYSTEM_ENABLE_FSYNC"); + if (!env) + return TRUE; + return atoi(env); +} + static int sync_file(const gchar *pathname, GError **error) { int fd; + if (!sync_enabled()) + return 0; + #ifdef HAVE_FDATASYNC fd = open(pathname, O_RDWR); if (fd == -1) -- 1.9.3