Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jun 2005 08:19:04 +0200 | | From | Nico Schottelius <> | | Subject | Re: Why is one sync() not enough? |
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Jesper Juhl [Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:58:36PM +0200]: > [sync twice, sync waits for sync] > > I believe sync in recent Linux's actually waits for the data to be > written and never returns early, so I don't think this is relevant any > more - and everyone uses shutdown these days anyway. But go read the > implementation of sync if you really want to know.
Thanks for the detailled instructions. I'll have a look at the sync implementation to see how it really works.
Anyway: As I am writing an init-system, I also have to write a shutdown procedure ;-)
Greetings,
Nico
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