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Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 14:16:05 -0400
From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <[e-mail]>
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In-Reply-To: Stephen Usher's message of Mon, 7 Jun 1993 14:59:01 +0100 (BST) <[e-mail]>
Subject: PL5 in progress ...

>Also, MiNT itself could call this every so often, just incase there's no
>daemon running. MiNT would also call this when init exits. Maybe Fsync()
>should have a partner, SFsync() ie Shutdown-filesystem-synchronise which
>would let the filesystems do final synchronisation and possibly set a bit in
>the header telling any future auto-fscking program that the filesystem need
>not be checked at boot time, just as SunOS 4.1.[23] and SunOS 5.x does.

I think this is a good idea, but it would only require another vector
for the filesystem to install such a handler; no user process would
ever want to indicate a final filesystem shutdown so it's just as well
to not have an operating system call for it.

Cheers,
entropy