Re: statfs() / statvfs() syscall ballsup...

[Joel Becker]

On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 12:58:05PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> >	Because you can't force flush/read.  You can't say "I need you
> >to go to disk for this."
> 
> According to my man pages, this is exactly what msync() is for, no?

	msync() forces write(), like fsync().  It doesn't force read().

Joel

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