Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758588AbZCaWhq (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:37:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755955AbZCaWhh (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:37:37 -0400 Received: from beauty.rexursive.com ([150.101.121.179]:44446 "EHLO beauty.rexursive.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754890AbZCaWhg (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:37:36 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 417 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:37:36 EDT Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.29 From: Bojan Smojver To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <49D29077.80502@goop.org> 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> <49D29077.80502@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 09:30:36 +1100 Message-Id: <1238538636.26693.11.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 (2.24.5-1.fc10) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 762 Lines: 22 On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:51 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > I was thinking something like "munge_important_stuff | fsync > output" > - ie, cat which fsyncs on close. Yeah, after I wrote my initial comment, I noticed you were saying essentially the same thing in your original post. I know, I should _read_ before posting. Sorry :-( > In fact, its vaguely surprising that GNU cat doesn't have this > already. I have no idea why we don't have that either. FreeBSD code seems really straightforward. -- Bojan -- 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/