On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:16:20PM -0400, Marek Kozubal scratched on the wall:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Jay A. Kreibich wrote:

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To repeat a third time: UPDATE(8) WON'T BE RUNNING. I CANNOT CALL

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SYNC(8).

Of course you can call sync(). updated mearly calls sync every 30

No, I can't. Or to be more specific, my script cannot. As I pointed out in the original post, I'm trying to do this from a script. When I send a SIGTERM to init it will kill *everything* including the script I use to send the SIGTERM. Therefore no matter what my script looks like, the last command executed will very likely be the "kill -s TERM 1". My script cannot call sync(8) once the system is in single user mode because my script has been killed by that point. However, there is no need to call sync(8) if close(2) calls fsync(2) or some similar function, which is why I asked my original question about the behavior of close(2). -j -- Jay A. Kreibich | Integration & Software Eng. jak@uiuc.edu | Campus IT & Edu. Svcs. <http://www.uiuc.edu/~jak> | University of Illinois at U/C _______________________________________________ darwin-kernel mailing list | darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-kernel Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.