Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:12:25 +1100 From: "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@bigpond.net.au> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net>, Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, Charles Randall <crandall@matchlogic.com>, Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <20010207141225.A769@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20010206121357.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102061555550.1535-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> <3A805035.C71AAD5E@monzoon.net> <200102061943.f16Jhp365113@earth.backplane.com> <3A805938.96ED890D@monzoon.net> <20010206121357.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> [010206 12:07] wrote: > > Does sendmail even use fsync()? > > It better. :) Quick grep of the sendmail sources shows most of the six fsync calls protected by a flag (SuperSafe && or nofsync &&). I don't know what circumstances can provoke either of those flags to be zero, but if they can be, then it mightn't be doing any fsyncs. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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