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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:41:59 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Question on sync
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:35AM +0530, Manik, Raina (IE10) wrote:
>Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees as it does on other
>unices ?  Does it guarantee that all the file blocks in memory caches
>are flushed onto disk ?

No.  In fact sync() on cygwin does nothing at all.  It probably should
set ENOSYS.  fsync() works, though.  It is just a wrapper around this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/flushfilebuffers.asp

cgf

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