Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX semantics do permit full support for asynchronous I/O Message-ID: Date: 31 Aug 90 21:48:13 GMT References: <60345@lanl.gov> <27619@nuchat.UUCP> <1990Aug30.222226.20866@cbnewsm.att.com> <29290:Aug3120:10:5590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: usa Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 14 In-reply-to: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu's message of 31 Aug 90 20:10:55 GMT In article <29290:Aug3120:10:5590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: | No. Any database application that claims to recover after crashes | without fsync()ing its write()s is lying. (This says some interesting | things about certain System V database programs.) Ah, but System V has O_SYNC was does do the fsync after every write (or so the man page claims...). -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?