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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!EU.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.apfel.de!univ-lyon1.fr!pasteur.fr!jussieu.fr!eurocontrol.fr!polaris.eurocontrol.fr!not-for-mail From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Powering Down Date: 15 Jul 1997 20:47:45 GMT Organization: Eurocontrol EEC, Bretigny, France Lines: 9 Message-ID: <5qgnlh$fvu$1@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> References: <33c49208.1255785@news.dixonssurgical.co.uk> <5q37ha$kao@baygull.rtd.com> <5q4v6j$e0m$2@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> <5q6op4$dam@baygull.rtd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test58 (13 May 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44477 In article <5q6op4$dam@baygull.rtd.com>, Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> wrote: > Hmm... I always thought *two* : > one "schedules" the sync > the second ensures the first has completed before *it* "completes"... This is a logical thought. Use of three "sync" is historical; not logical :-) -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: there are no limits -=- roberto@eurocontrol.fr FreeBSD FAQ: <URL:http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/>