From: Leslie Henlsey <hensleyl@...>
Date: 2002-01-18T01:17:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] #59 Add fsync method to IO class

Steve Lumos wrote:

> 
>   DESCRIPTION
>      The fdatasync() function forces  all  currently  queued  I/O
>      operations  associated  with  the  file  indicated  by  file
>      descriptor fildes to the synchronized I/O completion state.
> 
>      The functionality is as described for  fsync(3C)  (with  the
>      symbol _XOPEN_REALTIME defined), with the exception that all
>      I/O operations are completed as defined for synchronised I/O
>      data integrity completion.
> 
> and that sounds to me like it should be rb_notimplemented if it's not
> defined instead of passed-off to fsync() (let the Ruby code decide to
> use fsync() instead if that's really good enough.


I was following Linux's lead on this.  But now that you mention it,

having fdatasync silently call fsync does seem like a bad idea :)


> Also, the whole point of these functions is to get the file in a known
> state.  If they fail then the file probably isn't in the known state
> which means that the return value should be checked and rb_sys_fail()
> on error IMO.


I agree.  I will make this change to the patch.


> 
> Steve
> 


Leslie
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