RE: Question on sync

2003-03-03 Thread Gary R. Van Sickle
> All, > > Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees > as it does on other unices ? Does it guarantee > that all the file blocks in memory caches are > flushed onto disk ? No, as Chris said it does nothing. In fact, it's hard to believe, but it's damn near *impossible*

Re: Question on sync

2003-03-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:35AM +0530, Manik, Raina (IE10) wrote: >Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees as it does on other >unices ? Does it guarantee that all the file blocks in memory caches >are flushed onto disk ? No. In fact sync() on cygwin does nothing at all. It probably sh

Question on sync

2003-03-03 Thread Manik, Raina (IE10)
All, Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees as it does on other unices ? Does it guarantee that all the file blocks in memory caches are flushed onto disk ? thanks, Manik The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's: "My brain is paged out to my liver"