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From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: interrupting with ctrl-C
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 07:42:14 -0700
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> You don't need to close a file to make sure all the data is delivered to
> disk.  Just call `fsync' library function, and it will do the same much
> quicker (`close' and `open' are very expensive).  Calling `sync' will do
> the same for all open files.

Note that fsync and sync are not ANSI C.  Programs which use them will not be
portable.

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