working sync() code

[GARY VANSICKLE]

[snip]
> 
> SUSv3 has this to say about sync():
> 
> <quote>
> The sync() function shall cause all information in memory that updates
> file
> systems to be scheduled for writing out to all file systems.
> 
> The writing, although scheduled, is not necessarily complete upon return
> from
> sync().
> </quote>
> 

"scheduled for writing out"?  Isn't that done at the time any
file/filesystem calls are made?  Unless I'm missing something, that quote
translates to, "sync() does nothing".


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