From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 6 19:12:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailin7.email.bigpond.com (unknown [139.134.6.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891C437B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org ([139.134.4.55]) by mailin7.email.bigpond.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with SMTP id G8DAGG00.9FD for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 13:17:04 +1000 Received: from CPE-144-132-234-126.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([144.132.234.126]) by mail4.bigpond.com (Claudes-Organized-MailRouter V2.9c 7/7093919); 07 Feb 2001 13:11:42 Received: (qmail 1257 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Feb 2001 03:12:25 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 14:12:25 +1100 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Andre Oppermann , Matt Dillon , Rik van Riel , Mike Silbersack , Poul-Henning Kamp , Charles Randall , Dan Phoenix , Jos Backus , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems) Message-ID: <20010207141225.A769@gurney.reilly.home> References: <3A805035.C71AAD5E@monzoon.net> <200102061943.f16Jhp365113@earth.backplane.com> <3A805938.96ED890D@monzoon.net> <20010206121357.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010206121357.S26076@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:13:57PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Andre Oppermann [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