From: eric@... (Eric Lee Green)
Date: 2002-01-19T02:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] #59 Add fsync method to IO class

In article <1011251260.134700.4748.nullmailer@ev.netlab.jp>, Yukihiro 
Matsumoto wrote:
> In message "[RCR] #59 Add fsync method to IO class"
>     on 02/01/17, Leslie Hensley <hensleyl@papermountain.org> writes:
> 
>|Adding fsync and fdatasync methods to the IO class will allow Ruby to
>|be used to address problem domains where it must be guaranteed that
>|data has been written to the disk. Examples of these are logging for
>|security purposes and transactional systems. The posix functions fsync
>   * how common are they?

Extremely common in any database system. 

>   * what if it's not defined on the platform?

Then it's a NOP, and transactional stuff won't work reliably (shrug). 
Which is no different from the current situation. 

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