Re: fsync for only part of a file

Andrew Brown <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:46:10 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.os.bsd.api.general
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:25:49AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 10:23  AM, Gary Duzan wrote:
>
>>    FWIW, AIX has fsync_range(int, int, off_t, off_t). The second
>> int specifies whether to sync all the data or just the metadata
>> for the range.
>>
>> http://publib16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/libs/basetrf1/fsync.htm
>
>Looks like simply using the AIX API for this would be sensible.
>
>Thanks for pointing it out :-)

and the lseek()-like whence argument that was suggested could easily
be folded into the flags here, since they're only using one bit.  :)

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