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SubjectRe: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes
On Thu, Aug 27, 1998 at 04:27:48PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> Because, pinhead, this way you go look and see what the hell it is,
> and consider "Hey, do I need a flush() operation?" Instead of
> "a-huh, it compiled, it must work and be ok with the changes made
> this kernel release... uh-huh"

So what is flush() actually used for?

Looks to me like its used for, well, um, well, flushing just before
the file is closed - only, no drivers I can find use it!



-cw

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