On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 12:59:11PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > I can't remember if sync actually wait on the harddrive but I'm think > not. Then a doubel-sync and a quick power-off could ruin your hard > drive. > > The thing about syncing twice (I heard 3 times) is something with > sitting on a 300 baud terminal. That leaves enough time for the > harddrive to actually do the syncing. (Try it and you know why it is > "ls" and not "dir")
The first sync tells the hard drive to synchronize. The second sync will not return until the hard drive has actually been synchronized. At least, this is the conventional wisdom, and thus completely suspect. -- Mason Loring [EMAIL PROTECTED]/mason "In the drowsy dark cave of the mind dreams build their nest with fragments dropped from day's caravan."--Rabindranath Tagore..awake ? sleep : dream;
