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Subject: Re: serial device and fsync
From: Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> Most hardware UARTs actually can't do this but the kernel will do its
> best. The POSIX interface you want is tcdrain(fd). Quite why POSIX didn't
> use fsync is a very good question.

Thank you so much !

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