sync(2)

2004-10-27 Thread Reini Urban
Is anybody aware of any cygwin app (supported or not) which uses/needs the sync() system call? I found some occasional encounters of fsync(), but luckily no sync() yet. only in some unused testsuites :) sync() should flush all open or cached file data and metadata. and volume master blocks.

RE: sync(2)

2004-10-27 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
sync() should flush all open or cached file data and metadata. and volume master blocks. Not according to POSIX: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/sync.html The sync() function causes all information in memory that updates file systems to be scheduled for writing out to all