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From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: O_SYNC 
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In the open(2) man page, there is no mention of either O_FSYNC
which I find on ULTRIX, or O_SYNC, which I seem to find everywhere
else.


Isn't O_SYNC the POSIX way to do things?  Why does FreeBSD have
O_FSYNC, and why isn't it documented?

-josh