sync(2) versus sync(8)

[Jeff Beadles;685-2568;;;quark]

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.


In most (if not all) of the implimentations of sync(8) that I've seen, they
could be written as a one-liner:

main() {sync(); exit(0);}

They just call sync(2) and return a zero exit code.

	-Jeff
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