Re: sync(1) not really syncing??

[Jonathan Schleifer <js-netbsd-users%webkeks.org@localhost>]

Am 11.09.2008 um 13:58 schrieb Ephaeton%gmx.net@localhost:

> Ah okay, now I see it in the manpage too. But it's in the BUGS
> section. Can't we have a sync that stalls the system until its
> buffers *really* are clean?

I hope you don't mean stall the system, but let sync(1) block until  
it's done. I guess this is for historic reasons and because of the  
syscall used by sync(1).

--
Jonathan

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