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2015-03-05doc: mention persistence caveats in sync man pageStéphane Aulery
* 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
2015-01-28sync: support syncing specified argumentsGiuseppe Scrivano
* 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.
2006-03-06Add `SEE ALSO' references to syscalls from utilities of the same name.Jim Meyering
2004-06-30Use "file system" rather than "filesystem".Jim Meyering
2000-02-01change ." to .\"Jim Meyering
1999-11-02include summary in [NAME] sectionJim Meyering
1998-09-12.Jim Meyering