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From: npl@cbnewsi.att.com (nickolas.landsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: OK to expect O_SYNC?
Message-ID: <1990May22.162447.26419@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 22 May 90 16:24:47 GMT
References: <1108@vision.UUCP> <1990May18.010853.19303@virtech.uucp> <891@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
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In article <891@nlsun1.oracle.nl> bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) writes:
>There has been a discussion in comp.databases about the O_SYNC flag, write(),
>etc.  This should be taken up in this group.
>
>Included are abstracts from the discussion (I hope I got the quotations right,
>else please excuse me):
	[ much deleted for brevity ]
>Article <1990May18.010853.19303@virtech.uucp> by cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) says:
>|
>|No this is not true.  All write() system calls write the data into a unix
>|kernel buffer (assuming they are writing to a file descriptor that is
>|associated with a file fed through the buffer cache (character devices
>|being a not