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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:56:11PM +0000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> 
>>No it won't, since if you're using file descriptors there *is* no C
>>library buffer.  fclose() will, though, and then call close().
> 
> 
> Data sits in the page-cache though, and if you loose power before
> that's flushed you will loose data.  This is why fsync is needed to be
> sure.
> 

Correct.

	-hpa