From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199904081829.OAA24267@spock2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: fflush question
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:29:03 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.990408112438.29868O-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Apr 8, 99 11:25:16 am
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Bonjour 

> 
> On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> > > DJ, does Posix say anything about it?
> > 
> > No, fflush() is ANSI, not POSIX.
> 
> I was asking about `fsync', on the assumption it was Posix.  But it
> seems it isn't Posix.

fsync(), fdatasync(), aio_fsync() are now part of the latest
POSIX 1003.1/1996 Ed. See sec 6.6.x File Synchronization.

However the Un*x void sync(void) is not but seems to be part
of my version of Unix98.

-- 
au revoir, alain
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