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Date:      Sat, 27 Apr 1996 12:58:55 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org, jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: O_SYNC
Message-ID:  <199604270258.MAA07041@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Isn't O_SYNC the POSIX way to do things?  Why does FreeBSD have
>O_FSYNC, and why isn't it documented?

POSIX.1 doesn't specify any way to sync files.  Perhaps FreeBSD
has O_FSYNC as a compatibility hack, and it isn't documented because
it doesn't do anything.

Bruce



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