home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1993 12:18 +0100 (MET)
- From: Hildo@consul.nl
- Subject: Re: Latest version of my init(8) package.
- In-Reply-To: <6490.9308110659@EARTH.OX.AC.UK>
- To: mint@TERMINATOR.RS.ITD.UMICH.EDU
- Message-Id: <"93-08-11-12:18:05.21*CRMBIER"@HDETUD2.TUDELFT.NL>
- References: <9308102059.AA04375@NYX.CS.DU.EDU> from "Stephen Henson" at Aug 10,
- 93 02:59:35 pm
-
- > A suggested scheme..
- >
- > The global system update daemon opens the root directory of a drive and
- > calls Fcntl with the control code for the syncing function. Drives which
- > can't handle syncing will merely return EINVAL, this is correct isn't it?
- > I'm not thinking straight this morning.
- >
- I agree with this, we should have has a Fcntl(sync) a long time ago.
-
- However, I seem to recall an earlier proposal to do this, one
- that even included patches for Y-disk. In what black hole did
- those changes disappear?
-
- Hildo
-