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From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] sys_sync livelock fix
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 18:31:44 -0500
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On Wednesday 13 February 2002 10:11 am, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> On this topic, it would make a lot of sense from the user's point of view
> to have a way of syncing a single volume, how would we express that?

If you're talking about sync(1), I'd make it work like df.  Typing df with no 
arguments lists all volumes, df with a path looks at just that path.  (And 
"df ." works fine too.)

If you're asking about sync(2) and how it should talk to the kernel, I'm not 
going to express an opinion...

Rob
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