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Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:29:24 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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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.

The problem is that I have a simple patch, but this might get tricky if 
there are more processes involved, which I doubt. I doubt that there 
such a thing exists and that it will be useful at all.
We could also just flush all local NTFS volumes, but this would need 
Administrator privileges (and therefore probably cygserver support).

* http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#sync
* 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/base/flushfilebuffers.asp 
* http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q4/msg00086.html
-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/


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