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| author | Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> | 2015-01-25 01:33:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-01-28 10:50:45 +0000 |
| commit | 8b2bf5295f353016d4f5e6a2317d55b6a8e7fd00 (patch) | |
| tree | 7725752280ec9dbcb4b6e510329d2d864915d1b5 /NEWS | |
| parent | 44074d8f77caa085f75e27b73e06c8301992cf84 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-8b2bf5295f353016d4f5e6a2317d55b6a8e7fd00.tar.xz | |
sync: support syncing specified arguments
* m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for syncfs().
* man/sync.x: Add references to syncfs, fsync and fdatasync.
* doc/coreutils.texi (sync invocation): Document the new feature.
* src/sync.c: Include "quote.h".
(AUTHORS): Include myself.
(MODE_FILE, MODE_DATA, MODE_FILE_SYSTEM, MODE_SYNC): New enum values.
(long_options): Define.
(sync_arg): New function.
(usage): Describe that arguments are now accepted.
(main): Add arguments parsing and add support for fsync(2),
fdatasync(2) and syncfs(2).
* tests/misc/sync.sh: New (and only) test for sync.
* tests/local.mk: Reference the new test.
* AUTHORS: Add myself to sync's authors.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 3 |
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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- stty allows setting the "extproc" option where supported, which is a useful setting with high latency links. + sync no longer ignores arguments, and syncs each specified file, or with the + --file-system option, the file systems associated with each specified file. + ** Changes in behavior df no longer suppresses separate exports of the same remote device, as |