Subject: Fsync(2) kernel patches uploaded
From: Stephen Tweedie <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Mar 1993 17:14:39 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I have uploaded fsync.README and fsync.tar.z to incoming on
sunsite.unc.edu, tsx-11.mit.edu and nic.funet.fi.

These patches are designed to go against 0.99pl7A (the 0.99pl7 with
ALPHA-diffs), but should patch against 0.99pl7 with a little effort.

fsync(2) is a system call which flushes the data for a file onto
physical media, ensuring that the data is safe.  It is typically used
in programs like syslogd to ensure that important logging information
is written quickly to disk; in database-type applications to ensure
that all the contents of a log have been written to a main data file
before the log is written; and in any similair cases where it is
important to know that written data has been stored reliably on disk.

See the fsync README file for more information.

Cheers,
 Stephen Tweedie.
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Stephen Tweedie <[email-masked]>   (Internet: <[email-masked]>)
Department of Computer Science, Edinburgh University, Scotland.

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