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The
function forces a write of dirty (modified) buffers in the block buffer
cache out to disk. The kernel keeps this information in core to reduce the
number of disk I/O transfers required by the system. As information in the
cache is lost after a system crash a call is issued frequently by the
user process (about every 30 seconds). The function may be used to synchronize
individual file descriptor attributes.
may return before
the buffers are completely flushed.
A function call appeared in
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