From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <440628ED.7000800@lanl.gov> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 16:06:21 -0700 From: Ronald G Minnich User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] 9p and how can I know when a write is finished References: <0f7ba0b0e61aaeb056b8c0fb5d3e4e18@vitanuova.com> In-Reply-To: <0f7ba0b0e61aaeb056b8c0fb5d3e4e18@vitanuova.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 092b4a02-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 rog@vitanuova.com wrote: >>There isn't a "Tensure-all-bits-are-stable", right? > > > from stat(5): > As a special case, if all the elements of the directory entry in a > Twstat message are ``don't touch'' values, the server may interpret it > as a request to guarantee that the contents of the associated file are > committed to stable storage before the Rwstat message is returned. > (Consider the message to mean, ``make the state of the file exactly > what it claims to be.'') > hmm. this is a Tsync by another name, to me ... ron