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diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2 b/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 540e02b78493..000000000000 --- a/lib/libc/sys/fsync.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,134 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 -.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. -.\" Copyright (c) 2016 The FreeBSD Foundation, Inc. -.\" All rights reserved. -.\" -.\" Parts of this documentation were written by -.\" Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org> under sponsorship -.\" from the FreeBSD Foundation. -.\" -.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without -.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions -.\" are met: -.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. -.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright -.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the -.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. -.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors -.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software -.\" without specific prior written permission. -.\" -.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND -.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE -.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE -.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE -.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL -.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS -.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) -.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT -.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY -.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF -.\" SUCH DAMAGE. -.\" -.\" @(#)fsync.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 -.\" $FreeBSD$ -.\" -.Dd March 30, 2020 -.Dt FSYNC 2 -.Os -.Sh NAME -.Nm fdatasync , -.Nm fsync -.Nd "synchronise changes to a file" -.Sh LIBRARY -.Lb libc -.Sh SYNOPSIS -.In unistd.h -.Ft int -.Fn fdatasync "int fd" -.Ft int -.Fn fsync "int fd" -.Sh DESCRIPTION -The -.Fn fsync -system call -causes all modified data and attributes of the file referenced by -the file descriptor -.Fa fd -to be moved to a permanent storage device. -This normally results in all in-core modified copies -of buffers for the associated file to be written to a disk. -.Pp -The -.Fn fdatasync -system call causes all modified data of -.Fa fd -to be moved to a permanent storage device. -Unlike -.Fn fsync , -the system call does not guarantee that file attributes or -metadata necessary to access the file are committed to the permanent storage. -.Pp -The -.Fn fsync -system call -should be used by programs that require a file to be -in a known state, for example, in building a simple transaction -facility. -If the file metadata has already been committed, using -.Fn fdatasync -can be more efficient than -.Fn fsync . -.Pp -Both -.Fn fdatasync -and -.Fn fsync -calls are cancellation points. -.Sh RETURN VALUES -.Rv -std fsync -.Sh ERRORS -The -.Fn fsync -and -.Fn fdatasync -calls fail if: -.Bl -tag -width Er -.It Bq Er EBADF -The -.Fa fd -argument -is not a valid descriptor. -.It Bq Er EINVAL -The -.Fa fd -argument -refers to a socket, not to a file. -.It Bq Er EIO -An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system. -.It Bq Er EINTEGRITY -Corrupted data was detected while reading from the file system. -.El -.Sh SEE ALSO -.Xr fsync 1 , -.Xr sync 2 , -.Xr syncer 4 , -.Xr sync 8 -.Sh HISTORY -The -.Fn fsync -system call appeared in -.Bx 4.2 . -The -.Fn fdatasync -system call appeared in -.Fx 11.1 . -.Sh BUGS -The -.Fn fdatasync -system call currently does not guarantee that enqueued -.Xr aio 4 -requests for the file referenced by -.Fa fd -are completed before the syscall returns. |