> > > > the flush fails but the programs fails to recognize it? i.e. the program > > assumes the data is written to disk but it isn't? > > Why would the program fail to recognize it? It should just look at the > result being returned. >
sorry no. everything else raises an error. this is not documented (as far as I can see) and mmap.flush returns 0 on unix if it succeeds, and raises an exception on unix if it fails. on windows it returns 1 if it succeeds and 0 if it doesn't (One more time: on unix it returns 0 if it succeeds). Regards, - Ralf > I agree that this is fairly unpythonic, but I also think that there is > any data loss that this may cause is the application's fault. > >
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