Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 08:15:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: mal@algonet.se, tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pthreads and sync writes Message-ID: <199809210815.BAA21912@usr09.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809202308.JAA18502@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Sep 21, 98 09:08:37 am
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> >> Btw, O_FSYNC isn't documented in open.2. > > > >Then the man page is broken, since this has existed as an option to > >open(2) in UNIX for a very, very long time. > > I was almost right about O_FSYNC being a no-op. It wasn't implemented > in FreeBSD until the Lite2 merge. It is still a no-op in -stable. > Had it been an optional no-op in all versions of BSD for a very, very > long time? The answer is "yes, according to the source tree". Note that, IMO, failure to support this option in FreeBSD, if such occurs, makes FreeBSD wrong, not the other way around. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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