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sync_file_range

Posted Jun 1, 2008 22:15 UTC (Sun) by jlokier (guest, #52227)
In reply to: sync_file_range by stephen_pollei
Parent article: Fsyncers and curveballs (the Firefox 3 fsync() problem)

Perhaps but it's not implemented all that well at the moment.  The documentation is rather
confusing and leaves out a few important things.  The flags are rather specific artifacts of
the way Linux mm works, not a natural "kernel-neutral" API for syncing a file range.

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