Re: fsync for only part of a file

On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 09:51  AM, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:32:51PM -0700, wrstuden-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected] 
> wrote:
>>
>> int fsync2(int fd, off_t start, size_t run);
>
> I'm not sure how useful this is, but perhaps:
>
> 	int foo(int fd, off_t offset, size_t run, int whence);
> (where whence/offset is the same usage as lseek(2).
>
> by that extension, perhaps this new function could be called lsync().
> (not that I have any idea when the L stands for)

In the old days, there was a seek() and an lseek().  The latter took a 
"long" argument for the offset.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej-DZEk9q7Sfju/3pe1ocb+swC/[email protected]>


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