Subject: Re: fsync_range() system call
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/24/2003 18:46:34
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> I'd like to add a new system call, named fsync_range(). The purpose of
> this system call is to flush some of the data in a file; it's a kind of
> fdatasync for a range.

@@ -347,6 +362,7 @@
 __strong_alias(_close, close)
 __strong_alias(_fcntl, fcntl)
 __strong_alias(_fsync, fsync)
+__weak_alias(fsync_range, _fsync_range)
 __strong_alias(_msgrcv, msgrcv)
 __strong_alias(_msgsnd, msgsnd)
 __strong_alias(___msync13, __msync13)

mostly unrelated, but i'm curious why weak_alias and not strong_alias?


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