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valarauca1
on Sept 4, 2017
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Writing a SQLite clone from scratch in C
This is why msync is for. You can sync page by page and ensure ordering yourself.
drfuchs
on Sept 4, 2017
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You think you can, but you can't! Linux always sync's the whole file; see
https://lwn.net/Articles/502612/
for a discussion of why fixing this horrible bug is too dangerous.
mcguire
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You think you can, but you can't!
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Welcome to systems programming....
neoflame
on Sept 4, 2017
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This is not true after Linux 3.16, commit 7fc34a62ca44 ("mm/msync.c: sync only the requested range in msync()").
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