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Re: [PATCH] loadables/sync: allow fsync of individual files like GNU cor
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [PATCH] loadables/sync: allow fsync of individual files like GNU coreutils |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:24:13 -0500 |
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On 12/18/22 7:52 AM, Chris Webb wrote:
It's often useful to fsync an individual file from a shell script, for
example after writing a log entry which needs to be safely persisted. Doing
so with a loadable builtin is much less expensive than spawning an external
command just to call fsync(2).
Thanks for the patch.
Chet
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/