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NAME
sync
- "schedule file system updates"
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LIBRARY
.Lb libc
SYNOPSIS
.In unistd.h
void
sync void
DESCRIPTION
The
sync
system call forces a write of dirty (modified) buffers in the block buffer cache out to disk. The kernel keeps this information in core to reduce the number of disk I/O transfers required by the system. As information in the cache is lost after a system crash, a
sync
system call is issued frequently by the user process
syncer
(4) (about every 30 seconds).
The
fsync
(2) system call may be used to synchronize individual file descriptor attributes.
SEE ALSO
fsync
(2),
syncer
(4),
sync
(8)
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