<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the new coreutils+gnulib call sync(2) at > appropriate places?
coreutils calls 'sync' only in the 'sync' and 'shred' and 'df --sync' commands, which are irrelevant here. Applications should never have to call 'sync' to do ordinary things like remove files, so I don't know what you mean by "appropriate places".