fdatasync on Mac is a mess. What I’ve been hacking at is described in
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74873
where they face the same issue.
My inclination is to steer clear of this mess. We can disable fdatasync on mac
with a simple patch:
$ svn diff
Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in (revision 1789687)
+++ configure.in (working copy)
@@ -573,6 +573,11 @@
OSDIR="unix"
eolstr="\\n"
;;
+ *darwin* )
+ ac_cv_func_fdatasync="no" # Mac OS X wrongly reports it has fdatasync()
+ OSDIR="unix"
+ eolstr="\\n"
+ ;;
*)
OSDIR="unix"
eolstr="\\n”
Comments? Objections?
—
Nick Kew
