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From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Record-access libraries (with query on NFS)
Message-ID: <297@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 17:19:14 GMT
References: <e4G91#2Wa6Tw=eric@snark.UUCP> <287@cvbnet2.UUCP> <107@minya.UUCP> <931@riddle.UUCP>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>UNIX System V, release 3 and later (but not the POSIX standard, IEEE
>1003.1, or, as an example of a BSD-derived system, SunOS) has a
>synchronous write facility (enabled with the O_SYNC flag to open() or
>fcntl()),

Bad example.  SunOS 4.0 most definitely *does* have O_SYNC.