Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!RICHTER.MIT.EDU!krowitz From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Ensuring update of ile is physically written to disk - question Message-ID: <8811211434.AA06284@richter.mit.edu> Date: 21 Nov 88 14:34:46 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13 I don't know if there is a generic Unix system call to do what you want, but there is an IOS_$FORCE_WRITE call which is supposed to insure that the disk buffer has been written out. -- David Krowitz krowitz@richter.mit.edu (18.83.0.109) krowitz%richter@eddie.mit.edu krowitz%richter@athena.mit.edu krowitz%richter.mit.edu@mitvma.bitnet (in order of decreasing preference)