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Bug 461005

Summary: CIFS option forcedirectio fails to allow the appending of text to files.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Component: kernelAssignee: Jeff Layton <jlayton>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin Jenner <mjenner>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 4.7CC: bugproxy, dhoward, jkachuck, qcai, steved, tao, vmayatsk
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2009-05-18 19:07:45 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 464494    
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reproducer none

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2008-09-03 11:44:51 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.
Comment 6 Vivek Goyal 2008-11-05 13:57:38 UTC 
Committed in 78.17.EL . RPMS are available at http://people.redhat.com/vgoyal/rhel4/
Comment 7 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-01-14 12:50:48 UTC 
Status update:

This is approved for 4.7.z.stream, requested with RHBZ 464494
and already released with errata :
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0972.html

This is also accepted for inclusion into RHEL 4.8.
This BZ will be used to track inclusion into RHEL 4.8
Comment 11 Jan Tluka 2009-03-24 17:20:32 UTC 
Created attachment 336505 [details]
reproducer

Testcase used to verify this bug attached.
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2009-05-18 19:07:45 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1024.html