OK I finished a patch that exposes os.fullfsync on platforms that
support it, and I added the corresponding documentation in
Doc/library/os.rst
Any comments?
http://bugs.python.org/issue3517
-ian
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Ian Charnas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Excellent comments, every
Excellent comments, everyone. It looks like I didn't know the full
situation, thanks scott for pointing me towards that email on
darwin-dev. The email said that fsync on OS X does indeed force a
flush from the operating system to the hard drive (so my earlier
understanding was incorrect), but da
> I can't think of a situation where it would be useful to do an fsync()
> in which you don't want the data to be flushed as far as possible.
Essentially, you are saying that you don't see a use for fsync. If
that's the case, then this API should be removed from Python completely.
As all others h
Richard Boulton wrote:
I can't think of a situation where it would be useful to do an fsync()
in which you don't want the data to be flushed as far as possible. If
you're bothering to call fsync(), it's presumably because you need to
guarantee that the data will be in a consistent state in the
James Y Knight wrote:
On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Ian Charnas wrote:
While some people might suggest that fullfsync should be exposed as a
method on the 'os' module for platforms that support it, I believe
this is not the best approach. Because the docstring for os.fsync
says that it forces th
On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Ian Charnas wrote:
Hello heroes and heroins of the python universe, lend me your ears and
I will tell you a tale that will make your platters spin!
As noted by SQLite [1] and MySQL [2] developers, fsync on OS X does
not actually flush a file to disk... instead OS X
Ian Charnas wrote:
As noted by SQLite [1] and MySQL [2] developers, fsync on OS X does
not actually flush a file to disk... instead OS X provides "fullfsync"
which actually flushes the file descriptor to disk. This simple patch
modifies python's "fsync" to take advantage of fullfsync on platform
