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.\" @(#)fsync.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt FSYNC 2
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.Os BSD 4.2
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm fsync
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.Nd "synchronize a file's in-core state with that on disk"
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Fd #include <unistd.h>
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.Ft int
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.Fn fsync "int fd"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Fn Fsync
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causes all modified data and attributes of
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.Fa fd
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to be moved to a permanent storage device.
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This normally results in all in-core modified copies
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of buffers for the associated file to be written to a disk.
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.Pp
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.Fn Fsync
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should be used by programs that require a file to be
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in a known state, for example, in building a simple transaction
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facility.
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1996-01-22 00:02:33 +00:00
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.Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
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.Pp
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In the non-threaded library
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.Fn fsync
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is implemented as the
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.Va fsync
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syscall.
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.Pp
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In the threaded library, the
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.Va fsync
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syscall is assembled to
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.Fn _thread_sys_fsync
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and
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.Fn fsync
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is implemented as a function which locks
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.Va fd
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for read and write, then calls
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.Fn _thread_sys_fsync .
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Before returning,
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.Fn fsync
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unlocks
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.Va fd .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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A 0 value is returned on success. A -1 value indicates
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an error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn fsync
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fails if:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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.Fa Fd
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is not a valid descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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.Fa Fd
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refers to a socket, not to a file.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr sync 2 ,
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1996-02-12 00:45:47 +00:00
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.Xr update 4 ,
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.Xr sync 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn fsync
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function call appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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