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From: greg@asphodel.bogs.org (Greg Shenaut)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Write-Through the File System Cache?
Date: 19 Aug 1994 18:59:31 GMT
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ian_vogt@ACM.ORG wrote:

: re: BSDI (but also for others in the *BSD* family)

: I would like to know if it is possible (without modifying
: the kernel) for an application to disable delayed write
: caching (or enable write-through caching) either for the
: file system as a whole or for a particular file (or file
: handle).

Perhaps fsync(2) will do what you need.
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Greg Shenaut -- gkshenaut@ucdavis.edu