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From: helene@umiacs.umd.edu (Helene Young-Myers)
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Subject: Immediate write to disk
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Date: 5 Jun 91 18:58:03 GMT
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     In Mach, how do I force an immediate write to disk?  I am looking for
the equivalent to the O_SYNC option in open() on Unix System V.  When this
option is set, each write() will wait for both the file data and file
status to be physically updated.

                                    Helene