On 18 Jul 2002, Johan Danielsson wrote:
> Does this look correct (this is in dd_close)?
>
> --- dd.c        2002/01/10 03:25:12     1.26
> +++ dd.c        2002/07/18 14:44:46
> @ -360,6 +360,8 @
>         }
>         if (out.dbcnt)
>                 dd_out(1);
> +       if(fsync(out.fd) < 0)
> +               err(1, "%s", out.name);

What's the idea behind this? Why force the machine to write out
everything, bypassing buffer cache and whatnot?


 - Hubert

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