man-pages version 4.13 as found on GitHub has an accidental deletion introduced in 2021d0b3be72d80decc0c869324e822a823d322f. Here's a patch to add it back: diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 index f1a01301d..c02d880a8 100644 --- a/man2/fsync.2 +++ b/man2/fsync.2 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ The call blocks until the device reports that the transfer has completed. As well as flushing the file data, .BR fsync () also flushes the metadata information associated with the file (see +.BR inode (7)). .PP Calling .BR fsync () -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
