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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: What does sync() _really_ do?
Message-ID: <1969@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:10:02 GMT
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In article <5258@segue.segue.com> jim@segue.segue.com (Jim Balter) writes:
>Even if sync waited on dirty block writes, that would be a 1-deep "sync queue",
>not the fabled 2-deep queue.

There is no `sync queue'.

I'm so pleased to see that the demise of comp.unix.wizards has resulted
in comp.unix.misinformation being crossposted to comp.unix.*.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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