aio_fsync() a directory ?

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 06:54:39PM +0200, Xavier Roche wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 06:34 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> >Take this up with the POSIX committee.  Complaining on implementors'
> >mailing lists won't have any effect on the future text of standards.
> 
> Absolutely. I'd like to mention that the austin-group-l mailing-list
> is opened to anyone wishing to contribute (with proper technical
> arguments, of course), and AFAICS opened to remarks (this bug was
> opened following one of my remarks - so you may consider this as my
> fault :p)

I'm guilty of a similar mistake, with issue #663, and would appreciate
any supporting arguments against the ridiculous change in the standard
they want to make and pretend is just a clarification of historic
practice. The proposed change also renders glibc non-conforming so I
think it's on-topic.

Rich