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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> Btw, O_FSYNC isn't documented in open.2.
>
>Then the man page is broken, since this has existed as an option to
>open(2) in UNIX for a very, very long time.

I was almost right about O_FSYNC being a no-op.  It wasn't implemented
in FreeBSD until the Lite2 merge.  It is still a no-op in -stable.
Had it been an optional no-op in all versions of BSD for a very, very
long time?

Bruce

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