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authorStéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>2015-03-05 12:15:52 +0000
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2015-03-05 12:21:50 +0000
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doc: mention persistence caveats in sync man page
* man/sync.x ([BUGS]): Mention the caveats and reference the system call man pages for more details. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19995 Debian bug #507085 reported by jidanni@jidanni.org
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sync \- Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
[DESCRIPTION]
.\" Add any additional description here
+[BUGS]
+Persistence guarantees vary per system.
+See the system calls below for more details.
[SEE ALSO]
fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)