>I'd tend to disagree with that. POSIX/SUS does not guarantee data makes
>it to disk until you do an fsync() (or open the file with the right flags,
>or other techniques). If an application REQUIRES that data get to disk,
>it really MUST DTRT.
Indeed; want your data safe? Use:
fflush(fp);
fsync(fileno(fp));
fclose(fp);
and check errors.
(It's remarkable how often people get the above sequence wrong and only
do something like fsync(fileno(fp)); fclose(fp);
Casper
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