[portawiki-discuss] fsync() and OS X

Stewart Smith stewart at mysql.com
Tue Nov 1 13:05:42 EST 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 03:41 +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> If this is right then all Unixen should be affected, not just OS X>

At least to my knowledge, Linux at least will do the appropriate foo
required when fsync is called. Certainly we only saw this type of
corruption on OSX. Maybe the best bet is to audit the code paths on
systems we care about or double-check with the maintainers?
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