On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 02:16:41PM -0600, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
>
> Bill Wendling wrote:
> >
> > Also sprach Pavel Machek:
> >
> > }
> > I wouldn't count on that. If my failed patches were any indication, it's
> > heavily used by apps like Netscape...
>
> Why the hell is Netscape doing this? Netscape is a browser/mail
> program, not a multi-user database, or are you refering to the server
> side of NetScape? This doesn't sound right! Why would Netscape need to
> write-through files all the time -- for browser failover?
Netscape is a mail client. For mailers it makes sense to flush
mailbox updates to disk. It seems to use a quite complicated
database for its mail store.
Also I guess fsync()ing bookmarks updates is useful.
-Andi
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