From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <385c85ca703ac8d441c4227d1bb24643@u2.inri> Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 17:24:17 +0100 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=047d7b5d52ca9ad2040521862dc0 Subject: Re: [9fans] off topic - a good Git reference Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7133345e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --047d7b5d52ca9ad2040521862dc0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 7 October 2015 at 16:17, =C3=81lvaro Jurado wrote= : > because it has an strong dependency of fsync to freeze sha keys in fs > during fetching. And that is just a dummy in Plan 9 ape fsync causes any operating system buffers in the "buffer cache" to be flushed to "disk" (not user-space buffers), so nothing should be needed with plan 9, which is why fsync is a nop in APE. --047d7b5d52ca9ad2040521862dc0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable --047d7b5d52ca9ad2040521862dc0--