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Re:Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention by jamesaguilar on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @01:49AM (#7377667)
There is already fflush, and it is generally not what people calling fsync want.
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Re:Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention by zurn on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:47AM (#7377823)
fflush is unrelated to the business of flushing data to disk. It's just a libc FILE* thing. It causes libc to empty the (typically tiny) stdio buffer associated with the FILE* using the write() system call.
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Re:Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention by jamesaguilar on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @10:43AM (#7379437)
Oops, my bad.
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