On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:52:35AM +0530, Manik, Raina (IE10) wrote: >Does sync()on cygwin give the same guarantees as it does on other >unices ? Does it guarantee that all the file blocks in memory caches >are flushed onto disk ?
No. In fact sync() on cygwin does nothing at all. It probably should set ENOSYS. fsync() works, though. It is just a wrapper around this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/flushfilebuffers.asp cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
