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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2.4.7 is way out of date and should be updated for the numerous bugfixes and 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

  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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