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From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: System 7 and cache
Message-ID: <48581@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 23:10:15 GMT
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In article <38464@cup.portal.com> MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi) writes:
>fry@zariski.harvard.edu (David Fry) writes about caching:
> 
>>That said, you will not leave information in the cache if you use the
>>file manager correctly: you should call FlushVol() periodically,
> 
>I remember someone telling me recently that regular FlushVolling
>doesn't necessarily guarantee the cache to be flushed.
> 
>Could someone please shed some light on this? Keith?
 
Oh, sure. Drag MY name into this...

You know, I'd also heard that FlushVolling didn't flush everything.
However, I traced through the code once, and it looks like it
flushes everything to me. At least, everything important. And
certainly everything pertaining to files.

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