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From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman)
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Subject: Re: More Questions
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Date: 10 Feb 89 00:51:41 GMT
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In article <9583@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> carlton@betelgeuse (Mike Carlton) writes:
>Anybody know how to force a 
>"synchronous" sync that doesn't return until it is done?

On some UNIX systems, doing two syncs in a row will achieve this, since the
second one won't start (or return) until the first one finishes.

I have no idea whether this is true on the NeXT or not, but it couldn't hurt.

	Howard A. Landman
	landman@hanami.sun.com