-------- In message <canczdfrk-7vbetkhfq9kkm4usrvjvh8ws_ozjidmh5336dt...@mail.gmail.com> , Warner Losh writes:
>BIO_FLUSH is primarily done to force ordering points, Originally BIO_FLUSH was defined the way it is, to make it possible to flush an isolated specified range on providers which support that so that fsync(2) could be implemented that way. I can't remember the exact semantics of the two "magic" flush operations (off=0,len=0) and (off=end,len=0) but they were different from each other in some important aspect (Pawel?) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [email protected] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
