On Nov 30, 2007 12:42 PM, robert engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is unclear if you need to open them for writing. The unix specs > clearly allow you do call fsync on ANY file descriptor. > > The Linux docs seem to imply that a file descriptor opened for write > is required. > > The Java specification allows it on ANY file descriptor as well - > this should be the only one that matters.
AIX docs say that fd opened for write is required... one of the error codes is "EBADF The FileDescriptor parameter is not a valid file descriptor open for writing." Java can't do much if the underlying OS doesn't support it, so it looks like we need to open for writing to sync. -Yonik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
