The .Nm utility

This commit is contained in:
Philippe Charnier 2002-07-06 19:13:21 +00:00
parent 9bee881145
commit 4690560d06
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=99499

View File

@ -41,7 +41,9 @@
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm Sync
The
.Nm
utility
can be called to ensure that all disk writes have been completed before the
processor is halted in a way not suitably done by
.Xr reboot 8
@ -57,8 +59,9 @@ such as resynchronizing the hardware clock
and flushing internal caches before performing a final
.Nm .
.Pp
.Nm Sync
utilizes the
The
.Nm
utility utilizes the
.Xr sync 2
function call.
.Sh SEE ALSO
@ -70,5 +73,5 @@ function call.
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm
command appeared in
utility appeared in
.At v4 .