On Jun 7, 2004, at 21:56, Jay A. Kreibich wrote: I have a fairly simple question, but I need a very sure answer. If close(2) is called on the last file descriptor that references a standard file, are dirty pages associated with that file's buffers automatically queued for writing, in a similar manor to sync(2)? Yup. Regards, Justin -- Justin C. Walker, Curmudgeon-At-Large * Institute for General Semantics | Some people have a mental | horizon of radius zero, and | call it their point of view. | -- David Hilbert *--------------------------------------*-------------------------------* _______________________________________________ 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.