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author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-04-23 02:39:17 (GMT) |
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committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-04-23 02:39:17 (GMT) |
commit | 11b230696081e5c91153229616732a707dc9f94d (patch) | |
tree | 01c27dab8709bf147398c842034e4b0a35b8343c /Doc | |
parent | 9a9c436036dbd25d6ae42f67f22ccc5549b3c092 (diff) | |
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Enable os.fsync() for Windows, mapping it to MS's _commit() there. The
docs here are best-guess: the MS docs I could find weren't clear, and
some even claimed _commit() has no effect on Win32 systems (which is
easily shown to be false just by trying it).
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
-rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libos.tex | 10 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex index 07762c6..8437614 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex @@ -449,7 +449,13 @@ Availability: \UNIX. \begin{funcdesc}{fsync}{fd} Force write of file with filedescriptor \var{fd} to disk. -Availability: \UNIX. + +On Windows this calls the MS \cfunction{_commit()} function. 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. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{ftruncate}{fd, length} @@ -921,7 +927,7 @@ order \member{st_atime}, \member{st_mtime}, \member{st_ctime}. -More items may be added at the end by some implementations. +More items may be added at the end by some implementations. The standard module \refmodule{stat}\refstmodindex{stat} defines functions and constants that are useful for extracting information from a \ctype{stat} structure. |