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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: syncing the disks when entering sleep
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:38:47 +0100
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Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2010 11:34:23 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> Actually, doing the sync() in the kernel is a hack that we decided not to
> remove just because the users space didin't do the right thing on some systems.
> If the user space always synced disks before suspending, we wouldn't have to
> do that in the kernel.

If you sync in user space will you not have an inevitable race condition?

	Regards
		Oliver