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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. |