Changeset f82edff0 in rtems

Timestamp:

Sep 4, 2003, 1:01:19 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@…>

Branches:

4.10, 4.11, 4.8, 4.9, 5, master

Children:

d9c3805

Parents:

a0c59d6

Message:

2003-09-04 Joel Sherrill <joel@…>

PR 466/doc

• io.t: Added sync().

Location:

doc/posix_users

Files:

• ChangeLog (modified) (1 diff)
• io.t (modified) (2 diffs)

doc/posix_users/ChangeLog

@@ +1 @@
+2003-09-04      Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>
+
+        PR 466/doc
+        * io.t: Added sync().
+
 2003-01-25      Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu@faw.uni-ulm.de>
 

doc/posix_users/io.t

@@ -26 +26 @@
 @item @code{fsync} - Synchronize file complete in-core state with that on disk
 @item @code{fdatasync} - Synchronize file in-core data with that on disk
+@item @code{sync} - Schedule file system updates
 @item @code{mount} - Mount a file system
 @item @code{unmount} - Unmount file systems
@@ -733 +734 @@
 @c
 @page
+@subsection sync - Schedule file system updates
+
+@findex sync
+@cindex  synchronize file systems
+
+@subheading CALLING SEQUENCE:
+
+@ifset is-C
+@example
+void sync(void);
+@end example
+@end ifset
+
+@ifset is-Ada
+@end ifset
+
+@subheading STATUS CODES:
+
+NONE
+
+@subheading DESCRIPTION:
+
+The @code{sync} service causes all information in memory that updates
+file systems to be scheduled for writing out to all file systems.
+
+
+@subheading NOTES:
+
+The writing of data to the file systems is only guaranteed to be 
+scheduled upon return.  It is not necessarily complete upon return
+from @code{sync}.
+
+@c
+@c
+@c
+@page
 @subsection mount - Mount a file system