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Added a update(4) man page to describe the kernel initiated update

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process and changed all of the old references to update(8) to update(4).
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Mike Pritchard 1996-02-12 00:45:47 +00:00
parent 5a489ac2b8
commit 3656c5f4df
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00 
svn path=/head/; revision=14041
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bin/sync/sync.8
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)sync.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93
.\" $Id$
.\" $Id: sync.8,v 1.2 1994/09/24 02:59:08 davidg Exp $
.\"
.Dd May 31, 1993
.Dt SYNC 8
@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ function call.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sync 2 ,
.Xr fsync 2 ,
.Xr update 4 ,
.Xr halt 8 ,
.Xr reboot 8 ,
.Xr update 8
.Xr reboot 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm sync

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lib/libc/sys/fsync.2
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@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sync 2 ,
.Xr sync 8 ,
.Xr update 8
.Xr update 4 ,
.Xr sync 8
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm

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lib/libc/sys/sync.2
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@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ As information in the cache is lost after a system crash a
call is issued
frequently
by the user process
.Xr update 8
.Xr update 4
(about every 30 seconds).
.Pp
The function
@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ may be used to synchronize individual file descriptor
attributes.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fsync 2 ,
.Xr sync 8 ,
.Xr update 8
.Xr update 4 ,
.Xr sync 8
.Sh BUGS
.Fn Sync
may return before the buffers are completely flushed.

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share/man/man4/Makefile
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@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ MAN4= bpf.4 cd.4 ch.4 clnp.4 cltp.4 ddb.4 drum.4 esis.4 fd.4 fpa.4 \
lkm.4 lo.4 netintro.4 ns.4 \
nsip.4 null.4 pt.4 pty.4 route.4 \
scsi.4 sd.4 snp.4 spp.4 st.4 su.4 tcp.4 \
ttcp.4 termios.4 tp.4 tty.4 udp.4 uk.4 unix.4 worm.4 yp.4
ttcp.4 termios.4 tp.4 tty.4 udp.4 uk.4 update.4 unix.4 worm.4 yp.4
MLINKS+=fd.4 stderr.4 fd.4 stdin.4 fd.4 stdout.4
MLINKS+=netintro.4 networking.4
MLINKS+=ipfirewall.4 ipacct.4 ipfirewall.4 ipfw.4 ipfirewall.4 ipaccounting.4

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.Dd February 11, 1996
.Dt UPDATE 4
.Os FreeBSD
.Sh NAME
.Nm update
.Nd flush internal filesystem caches to disk frequently
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm update
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm update
kernel process helps protect the integrity of disk volumes
by flushing
volatile cached filesystem data
to disk at thirty second intervals.
.Nm Update
does the equivalent of the
.Xr sync 2
function call to do the task.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr sync 2 ,
.Xr fsck 8 ,
.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr rc 8 ,
.Xr sync 8
.Sh BUGS
It is possible on some systems that a
.Xr sync
occurring simultaneously with a crash may cause
file system damage. See
.Xr fsck 8 .
.Sh HISTORY
An
.Nm update
command appeared in
.At v6 ,
and was usually started by /etc/rc when the system went multi-user.
.Nm Update
was turned into a kernel initiated process in FreeBSD 2.0.