Toby Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > write to file A > write to file B > write to file C > sync
Be careful with this approach. Apart from syncing other processes' dirty data, sync() does not make the same guarantees as fsync() does. Barring write cache effects, fsync() only returns after all blocks are on disk. While I'm not sure if and if yes, which, Linux file systems are affected, but for portable applications, be aware that sync() may return prematurely (and is allowed to!). -- Matthias Andree
