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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-04-23 19:47:14 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-04-23 19:47:14 (GMT)
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Clarified new fsync() docs.
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\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{fsync}{fd}
-Force write of file with filedescriptor \var{fd} to disk.
+Force write of file with filedescriptor \var{fd} to disk. On \UNIX,
+this calls the native \cfunction{fsync()} function; on Windows, the
+MS \cfunction{_commit()} function.
-On Windows this calls the MS \cfunction{_commit()} function. If you're
-starting with a Python file object \var{f}, first do
+If you're starting with a Python file object \var{f}, first do
\code{\var{f}.flush()}, and then do \code{os.fsync(\var{f}.fileno()},
to ensure that all internal buffers associated with \var{f} are written
to disk.
-Availability: \UNIX, and Windows starting in 2.3.
+Availability: \UNIX, and Windows starting in 2.2.3.
\end{funcdesc}
\begin{funcdesc}{ftruncate}{fd, length}