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Re: Question on sync
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:35AM +0530, Manik, Raina (IE10) wrote:
>Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees as it does on other
>unices ? Does it guarantee that all the file blocks in memory caches
>are flushed onto disk ?
No. In fact sync() on cygwin does nothing at all. It probably should
set ENOSYS. fsync() works, though. It is just a wrapper around this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/flushfilebuffers.asp
cgf
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