Re: [ST-devel] asynchronous fsync()

[Alfred P. <br...@mu...>]

* Mike Abbott <mj...@co...> [060307 09:04] wrote:
> > Is there any way to make fsync() asynchronous
> 
> My first guess would be No, because ST requires non-blocking I/O and
> descriptors to disk files can't be made non-blocking.  But I'll talk
> with Gene about it.  You mentioned async I/O but that's its own can of
> worms.  I've never relied on SIGIO; let me know how it works for you :).
> 
> If I were faced with this I would do the typical ST thing and spawn a
> persistent helper process.

You're right, you'd need a helper process to do this.

fsync(2) can not be made async.

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