Re: OT: fsync semantics (was Re: Linux kernel ....)

[Russell Nelson]

Andre Oppermann writes:
 > Bruno Wolff III wrote:
 > > Another situation is when dealing with several files in the same directory.
 > > You need to fsync each file, but you only need to fsync the directory once.
 > 
 > And how does this help you with qmail?

If, just *if*, you were designing a new version of qmail, and wished
to ensure that it worked well with THE most popular version of Unix,
you might choose to take that into account.  Or not.  I don't know any 
more than you do.  But still.

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