sync(2) versus sync(8)

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <13278 at ulysses.att.com> swfc at ulysses.att.com (Shu-Wie F Chen) writes:
>However, I can't find sync in section 8 of the man pages.  What does it
>actually do?  How does it differ from sync(2) which writes out all
>information in core memory that should be on disk.

Sync(8) is the command that calls the sync(2) system call which initiates
a write of all dirty file system information in the kernel.

If you can't find it in your docs, check for sync(1M) which it may also
appear as.


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