Chris Friesen wrote:
>
>> munmap() and fsync() or msync() will flush it to disk; there is no reason
>> munmap() should unless perhaps the file was opened O_SYNC.
>
> Wait a minute. Shouldn't a file opened O_SYNC flush the writes as they
> happen,
> removing the requirement for any explicit syncing? If it doesn't there
> are some very broken apps around.
>
Not for mmap().
-hpa
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