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.\" Copyright (c) 1992 Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu), March 28, 1992
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.\" and Copyright (c) 2011 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified by Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
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.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 12:02:47 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.\" Modified 15 Apr 1995 by Michael Chastain <mec@shell.portal.com>:
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.\" Modified 960414 by Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>:
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.\" Modified 2001-10-10 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk.
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.\" 2011-09-07, mtk, Added syncfs() documentation,
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.TH SYNC 2 2016-03-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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sync, syncfs \- commit filesystem caches to disk
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B #include <unistd.h>
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.sp
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.B void sync(void);
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.sp
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.BI "int syncfs(int " fd );
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.sp
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.sp
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.BR sync ():
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.ad l
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.RS 4
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_XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
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.\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ &&\ _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
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|| /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE
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|| /* Glibc versions <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE
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.RE
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.ad
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.sp
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.BR syncfs ():
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.ad l
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.RS 4
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_GNU_SOURCE
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.RE
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.ad
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.BR sync ()
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causes all pending modifications to file system metadata and cached file
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data to be written to the underlying filesystems.
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.BR syncfs ()
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is like
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.BR sync (),
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but synchronizes just the filesystem containing file
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referred to by the open file descriptor
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.IR fd .
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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.BR syncfs ()
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returns 0 on success;
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on error, it returns \-1 and sets
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.I errno
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to indicate the error.
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.SH ERRORS
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.BR sync ()
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is always successful.
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.BR syncfs ()
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can fail for at least the following reason:
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.TP
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.B EBADF
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.I fd
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is not a valid file descriptor.
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.SH VERSIONS
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.BR syncfs ()
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first appeared in Linux 2.6.39;
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library support was added to glibc in version 2.14.
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.SH CONFORMING TO
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.BR sync ():
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POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, SVr4, 4.3BSD.
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.BR syncfs ()
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is Linux-specific.
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.SH NOTES
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Since glibc 2.2.2, the Linux prototype for
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.BR sync ()
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is as listed above,
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following the various standards.
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In glibc 2.2.1 and earlier,
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it was "int sync(void)", and
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.BR sync ()
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always returned 0.
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According to the standard specification (e.g., POSIX.1-2001),
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.BR sync ()
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schedules the writes, but may return before the actual
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writing is done. However Linux waits for I/O completions,
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and thus
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.BR sync ()
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or
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.BR syncfs ()
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provide the same guarantees as fsync called on every file in
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the system or filesystem respectively.
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.SH BUGS
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Before version 1.3.20 Linux did not wait for I/O to complete
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before returning.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR sync (1),
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.BR fdatasync (2),
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.BR fsync (2)
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