Re: sync()

Tom Lane wrote:
> Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp> writes:
> >> What we really need is something better than sync(), viz flush all dirty
> >> buffers to disk *and* wait till they're written.  But sync() and sleep
> >> for awhile is the closest portable approximation.
> 
> > Are you saying that fsync() might not wait untill the IO completes?
> 
> No, I said that sync() might not.  Read the man pages.  HPUX's man
> page for sync(2) says
> 
>      sync() causes all information in memory that should be on disk to be
>      written out.
>      ...
>      The writing, although scheduled, is not necessarily complete upon
>      return from sync.

Yep, BSD/OS says:
BUGS     Sync() may return before the buffers are completely flushed.

At least they classify it as a bug.

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