RE: flushall

2004-06-04 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
Not sure what an hdf5 is, but in general it is not possible to do sync-to-backing-storage from an arbitrary account in Windows. Not even on removable media, which of course is where you often need it most. Microsoft's rationale behind this escapes me, but there it is. Furthermore, even

flushall

2004-06-01 Thread dbseraf
I'm trying to port some code that uses flushall() to cygwin. The non-windows version of the code uses 'system(sync)' but this fails the builtin tests. The code is hdf5-1.6.2, in case that helps. I noticed that flushall is defined in the mingw library, but I tried using gcc -mno-cygwin

RE: flushall

2004-06-01 Thread GARY VANSICKLE
I'm trying to port some code that uses flushall() to cygwin. The non-windows version of the code uses 'system(sync)' but this fails the builtin tests. The code is hdf5-1.6.2, in case that helps. Not sure what an hdf5 is, but in general it is not possible to do sync-to-backing-storage from