Re: Linux 2.6.29

[Bojan Smojver]

On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:51 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I was thinking something like "munge_important_stuff | fsync > output"
> - ie, cat which fsyncs on close.

Yeah, after I wrote my initial comment, I noticed you were saying
essentially the same thing in your original post. I know, I should
_read_ before posting. Sorry :-(

> In fact, its vaguely surprising that GNU  cat doesn't have this
> already.

I have no idea why we don't have that either. FreeBSD code seems really
straightforward.

-- 
Bojan

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