[Mono-dev] Cross-platform fsync()

Robert Jordan robertj at gmx.net
Wed Jan 10 04:43:18 EST 2007


Alan McGovern wrote:
> (sorry, just realised last message didn't go to mailing list)
> Hi,
> 
> Have you tried FileStream.Flush()? ;)

Flush() intentionally doesn't call fsync nor FlushFileBuffers.

Robert

> 
> Alan.
> 
> On 1/9/07, Patrick Earl <mono at patearl.net> wrote:
>>
>> Greetings all.  I've recently run into the need for a cross platform
>> fsync() call.  As far as I know, all of the flavors of unix that mono
>> supports provide the fsync call themselves.  On windows, there is a
>> _commit() function that does the same thing.  It seems like the
>> underlying platform support is there, but I'm not sure how to bring
>> that back up into the .net world so we can, for example, perform some
>> sort of flush to disk operation on a FileStream.  Suggestions?  Ideas?
>>
>>         Patrick
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