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Re: rationale for closein

From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: rationale for closein
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:33:10 -0700
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On 06/18/2012 08:30 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> after a
> successful flush, I consider it the operating system's data loss, not
> the application's, if the data fails to end up on permanent storage.

Many operating systems behave that way, alas.  This is for
performance reasons.  NFS is a classic example, but there
are others.
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