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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:53:48 -0600 (MDT)
From: Thunder from the hill <thunder@ngforever.de>
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To: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@stud.uni-dortmund.de>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ext3 vs Reiserfs benchmarks
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Hi,

On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Write a binary (/usr/bin/fsync) which opens a fd, fsync it, close it, be 
> > done with it.
> 
> Or steal one from FreeBSD (written by Paul Saab), fix the err() function
> and be done with it.
> 
> .../usr.bin/fsync/fsync.{1,c}
> 
> Interesting side note -- mind the O_RDONLY:
> 
>         for (i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
>                 if ((fd = open(argv[i], O_RDONLY)) < 0)
>                         err(1, "open %s", argv[i]);
> 
>                 if (fsync(fd) != 0)
>                         err(1, "fsync %s", argv[1]);
>                 close(fd);
>         }

Pretty much the thing I had in mind, except that the close return code is 
disregarded here...

							Regards,
							Thunder
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