Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 09:14:09 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@pipeline.ch> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Brad Knowles <brad@shub-internet.org>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Porting Greg Lehey's rawio.c from FreeBSD to Linux... Message-ID: <372AA9C1.4ABC9C1B@pipeline.ch> References: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9904302114210.9878-100000@feral.com>
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Matthew Jacob wrote: > For raw pattern testing Linux has a special challenge since you right > directly into the buffer cache. There *is* a BLKFLSBUF ioctl that can try > and force a flush but this probably ought to be written to use O_FSYNC- I > think that the ll_rw code might use it or an fsync could be done... Linux' fsync() works only on directories, not on files. -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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