On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 01:44:38AM -0400, Mathias Stearn wrote: > sync is good because it causes most saving applications to wait for > the file transfer to complete before resuming.
??? We are talking about /bin/sync, which calls sync(2), right? This has no effect on applications - it is only in kernel space. You are talking about SYNC the io flag.. which is totally different. - Rob .
