Hello Tez,
On 9 September 2017 at 20:41, Tej Chajed <tchajed@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's some awkward wording in the fsync(2) manpage where a sentence
> switches to past tense for a hypothetical and reads "after the system
> crashed or was rebooted". This is in man-pages version 4.13. Here's a
> proposed fix:
>
> diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2
> index 8b4bc0019..4fbe2cfc8 100644
> --- a/man2/fsync.2
> +++ b/man2/fsync.2
> @@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ transfers ("flushes") all modified in-core data of
> file referred to by the file descriptor
> .I fd
> to the disk device (or other permanent storage device) so that all
> -changed information can be retrieved even after the system crashed or
> -was rebooted.
> +changed information can be retrieved even if the system crashes or
> +is rebooted.
> This includes writing through or flushing a disk cache if present.
> The call blocks until the device reports that the transfer has completed.
> It also flushes metadata information associated with the file (see
Thanks. Fix applied.
Cheers,
Michael
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