Paul Eggert wrote:
"Matthew Woehlke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"shred" is sort-of in the same boat due to lacking fsync()
I don't recall that problem but it is easy enough to fix. Here's
a patch.
Ack, I must apologize for giving wrong information. What I meant to say
is that there is no /sync/ (oddly enough, there is fsync on NSK). So
building 'sync' is silly, which is what I remember to be the case (and
which is the point I was trying to communicate). See my original bug
report at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?17172. I guess 'shred' is OK if
it can always fsync() instead of sync()ing. Or was that fixed when I
wasn't looking? (Honestly I haven't yet gotten back to trying to build
coreutils on NSK with so many other things I was working on doing
first... like the fchdir gnulib module I still have to write/complete
before I can even make another meaningful attempt. And I can't recall
what happened the last time I tried.)
According to http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16325, Interix also lacks
sync(), but I don't remember where (or if) I have a usable Interix
install to check if it has fsync().
Guess that's what I get for trying to speak from memory.
--
Matthew
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