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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:38:37 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@curl.com>
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Hi,

On 15 Jul 2002, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> Note that this means writing a truly reliable shell or Perl script is
> tricky.  I suppose you can "use POSIX qw(fsync);" in Perl.  But what do
> you do for a shell script?  /bin/sync :-) ?

Write a binary (/usr/bin/fsync) which opens a fd, fsync it, close it, be 
done with it.

							Regards,
							Thunder
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