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- > I have discovered that some filesystem problems with E/L 1.99k were
- > due to executor getting confused about the status of files, and that
- > this was particularly a problem with floppy access, and was solved by
- > manually sync'ing the filesystems in another window. So, I figure
- > that perhaps executor ought to call sync(2) after every filesystem
- > write. It would make it a bit slower, but might prevent a lot of
- > these problems. Or has this been done with 1.99m? (I haven't tried it
- > yet)
- >
- > Tim.
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- fsync(2) would be a better choice.
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- Stephen
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