From: Damian Yerrick Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Rebooting the PC Organization: Pin Eight Software http://pineight.8m.com/ Message-ID: <85m6ts8bju1o2atbqhhoolbrbt1f6l73qi@4ax.com> References: <2110-Wed27Sep2000201513+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 X-Trace: /KtlGRt7apXIEjdXSpvQyzFOWRjJKWof9gaCsu0hFd7PC6g7U587tiQRSdPle7hk0avdPtYK+/gX!0DJS1RoKMFTWDYvKVZNYLLY3oG/th+C38mo9m4n1iObpsGlt7Jyx4zmnRPUOKN8uFlRq+5B51aip!s6cNqQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse AT gte DOT net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:42:18 GMT Distribution: world Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 14:42:18 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 20:15:14 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" wrote: >> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 19:50:47 +0600 (LKT) >> From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel >> >> The fact whether the port command will cause a write caching >> enabled disk cache to flush its cache before the reboot is not >> mentioned (ie the safety factors of the various methods). > >Whoever wants to reboot the PC should not come back crying that some >of the buffered data is lost... So what's the call to commit disk caches? --