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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

causes all modified data and attributes of to be moved to a permanent storage device. This normally results in all in-core modified copies of buffers for the associated file to be written to a disk. should be used by programs that require a file to be in a known state, for example, in building a simple transaction facility.

RETURN VALUES

A 0 value is returned on success. A -1 value indicates an error.

ERRORS

The fails if: is not a valid descriptor. refers to a socket, not to a file. An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to the file system.

SEE ALSO

HISTORY

The function call appeared in


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