> This is especially true given Windows has recently introduced a > transactional API for NTFS. Although the tone is - err - gushing - it > (a) should give some information on what is available, and (b) was high > on my google search list <wink> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163388.aspx > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363764(VS.85).aspx
Of course, we don't have to go to transactional NTFS to find an equivalent to fsync: applications can call FlushFileBuffers. Likewise, if applications want every write call to be synchronized, they can pass FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH to CreateFile (similar to what O_SYNC does on POSIX). Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
