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Optimizations and undefined behavior

Optimizations and undefined behavior

Posted Jul 23, 2009 5:07 UTC (Thu) by johnflux (subscriber, #58833)
In reply to: Optimizations and undefined behavior by BrucePerens
Parent article: Fun with NULL pointers, part 1

I hope not. Good developers will realize that fsync is a complete overkill there. They don't need wait for the changes to actually be made to disk before continuing - they only need to make sure that the changes happen in the right order.


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