Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757640AbZCaVwN (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:52:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752197AbZCaVv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:56 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:53487 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752122AbZCaVvz (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:51:55 -0400 Message-ID: <49D29077.80502@goop.org> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:51:51 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bojan Smojver CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 References: <20090326171148.9bf8f1ec.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090326174704.cd36bf7b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090327032301.GN6239@mit.edu> <20090327034705.GA16888@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327051338.GP6239@mit.edu> <20090327055750.GA18065@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327062114.GA18290@srcf.ucam.org> <20090327112438.GQ6239@mit.edu> <49CD4109.2070505@goop.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 705 Lines: 22 Bojan Smojver wrote: > Bojan Smojver rexursive.com> writes: > > >> That was stupid. Ignore me. >> > > And yet, FreeBSD seems to have a command just like that: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsync&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE > I was thinking something like "munge_important_stuff | fsync > output" - ie, cat which fsyncs on close. In fact, its vaguely surprising that GNU cat doesn't have this already. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/