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Re: Possible way to improve Executor/Linux
> I have discovered that some filesystem problems with E/L 1.99k were
> due to executor getting confused about the status of files, and that
> this was particularly a problem with floppy access, and was solved by
> manually sync'ing the filesystems in another window. So, I figure
> that perhaps executor ought to call sync(2) after every filesystem
> write. It would make it a bit slower, but might prevent a lot of
> these problems. Or has this been done with 1.99m? (I haven't tried it
> yet)
>
> Tim.
fsync(2) would be a better choice.
Stephen
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