Re: Why is one sync() not enough?

[Nico Schottelius <nico-kernel@schottelius.org>]

Jesper Juhl [Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:58:36PM +0200]:
> [sync twice, sync waits for sync]
> 
> I believe sync in recent Linux's actually waits for the data to be
> written and never returns early, so I don't think this is relevant any
> more - and everyone uses shutdown these days anyway. But go read the
> implementation of sync if you really want to know.

Thanks for the detailled instructions. I'll have a look at
the sync implementation to see how it really works.

Anyway: As I am writing an init-system, I also have to write a
shutdown procedure ;-)

Greetings,

Nico


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