From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3E48ABC5.6050205@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3E46ACD7.50802@null.net>, Subject: Re: [9fans] what a mess the Unix world has become Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:29:51 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5680ce36-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Ronald G. Minnich wrote: > Actually at some point in the 90s NFS became like that on SunOS (well, > minus the rollback system). That was about the time that close could > return an error, meaning "remember those writes you did yesterday? Well, > some of them may not have worked out, so you probably lost data. Have a > nice day." Unix has always been like that. Write() would succeed if a kernel buffer received the data, without waiting for the actual transfer to the device. This has been known to cause great fun with terminal lines.