On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 09:11:38PM +0100, Christian Heimes wrote: > Python's file type doesn't use fsync() and be the victim of the very > same issue, too. Should we do anything about it?
The mailbox module tries to be careful and always fsync() before closing files, because mail messages are pretty important. The various *dbm modules mostly have .sync() method. dumbdbm.py doesn't call fsync(), AFAICT; _commit() writes stuff and closes the file, but doesn't call fsync(). sqlite3 doesn't have a sync() or flush() call. Does SQLite handle this itself? The tarfile, zipfile, and gzip/bzip2 classes don't seem to use fsync() at all, either implicitly or by having methods for calling them. Should they? What about cookielib.CookieJar? --amk _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
