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Clueful?

Clueful?

Posted Apr 14, 2005 21:37 UTC (Thu) by Zartan (guest, #23725)
In reply to: Clueful? by roelofs
Parent article: Linux wins on security in survey of 6,000+ software developers

More to the point, it's better to do:

# sync
# sync
typed in by hand, than either of the above. Why? Because the second or two that it takes to type the second sync helps compensate for the "scheduled but not necessarily written" aspect of POSIX sync(). Works on all *nixes.


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