Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:20:02 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup... |
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Because you can't force flush/read. You can't say "I need you > >to go to disk for this." > > According to my man pages, this is exactly what msync() is for, no?
msync() forces write(), like fsync(). It doesn't force read().
Joel
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