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SYNC(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SYNC(2)

NAME

     sync, syncfs - commit filesystem caches to disk

SYNOPSIS

     #include <unistd.h>
     void sync(void);
     int syncfs(int fd);
 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
     sync():
         _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
             || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
             || /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE
     syncfs():
         _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

     sync()  causes  all  pending  modifications  to filesystem metadata and
     cached file data to be written to the underlying filesystems.
     syncfs() is like sync(), but synchronizes just the filesystem  contain-
     ing file referred to by the open file descriptor fd.

RETURN VALUE

     syncfs()  returns  0 on success; on error, it returns -1 and sets errno
     to indicate the error.

ERRORS

     sync() is always successful.
     syncfs() can fail for at least the following reason:
     EBADF  fd is not a valid file descriptor.

VERSIONS

     syncfs() first appeared in Linux 2.6.39; library support was  added  to
     glibc in version 2.14.

CONFORMING TO

     sync(): POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
     syncfs() is Linux-specific.

NOTES

     Since  glibc  2.2.2, the Linux prototype for sync() is as listed above,
     following the various standards.  In glibc 2.2.1 and  earlier,  it  was
     "int sync(void)", and sync() always returned 0.
     According  to  the  standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001), sync()
     schedules the writes, but may return before the actual writing is done.
     However  Linux  waits  for I/O completions, and thus sync() or syncfs()
     provide the same guarantees as fsync called on every file in the system
     or filesystem respectively.

BUGS

     Before  version  1.3.20  Linux  did not wait for I/O to complete before
     returning.

SEE ALSO

     sync(1), fdatasync(2), fsync(2)

COLOPHON

     This page is part of release 4.16 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
     description  of  the project, information about reporting bugs, and the
     latest    version    of    this    page,    can     be     found     at
     https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux 2017-09-15 SYNC(2)

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