Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qtlon.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!ukc!qtlon!dave From: dave@qtlon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: How many times do you "sync"? Message-ID: <189@qtlon.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 09:51:45 EST Article-I.D.: qtlon.189 Posted: Fri Feb 17 09:51:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 02:46:46 EST References: rabbit.2477, <1072@utah-gr.UUCP> <610@ihuxq.UUCP> <377@sequent.UUCP>, <570@orca.UUCP> Organization: Quantime Ltd., London, WC1 Lines: 11 > Thus, when the shell command > "sync;sync" finished and you saw another shell prompt, you could be > confident that the first sync(2) had completed and all dirty blocks had > been flushed. SUre, sure, but the second one (which would flush all the non read-only superblocks again) wouldn't have ..... Love & XXXXXXXXXXXXs Dave (`Why isn't this in unix-wizards?') Lukes!ukc!qtlon!dave