[PATCH] fsync applet

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Thu Jun 11 14:30:05 UTC 2009



virtuoso at slind.org schrieb:
> From: Pekka Pessi <Pekka.Pessi at nokia.com>
> 
> Issue fsync() system call on a file to ensure its buffers are synchronized
> with the backing storage.
> 
>

According to the man page fsync is not in any standard, just to reduce the number
of applets maybe we can add this as option to the "sync" command ?
I am not sure what use this applet may have in an embedded system but
what is about fdatasync(2) ? perhaps this can be added as command line option too ?

re,
 wh



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