From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Kenny Simpson <theonetruekenny@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmap-related questions
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 12:55:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030331125548.D20730@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030331144110.55232.qmail@web20003.mail.yahoo.com>; from theonetruekenny@yahoo.com on Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:41:10AM -0800
On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:41:10AM -0800, Kenny Simpson wrote:
> I tested that fsync() does not seem to sync pages that
> were mapped with mmap. Is there some way to sync all
> data associated with the file? Is there a way which
> is also portable to Solaris 2.6?
No. You must use msync(). Note that fsync() after munmap() will flush the
pages to disk under Linux.
> BTW: I'm using 2.4.7 (RH enterprise)
2.4.7 is way out of date and should be updated for the numerous bugfixes and
security errata.
-ben
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-31 17:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-31 14:41 mmap-related questions Kenny Simpson
2003-03-31 17:55 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2003-04-01 3:25 ` Kenny Simpson
2003-04-01 17:50 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-02 3:18 ` Kenny Simpson
2003-04-02 9:30 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-04-02 15:10 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2003-04-02 23:43 ` Jakob Oestergaard
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