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Chris Caudle wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Thu April 17 2003 2:06 am, Victor V. Vengerov wrote:<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">I agree, it is reasonable to flush buffers when file closed. People may<br>expect that data synchronized when file closed. <br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Any opinions?<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Since no one else has offered any...<br>Requiring explicit synchronization is fairly standard behavior, I see no <br>reason to modify close(). I think some people get caught off guard <br>because Microsoft DOS did not seem to have a filesystem cache, and even <br>today Windows operating systems seem to always flush operations to floppy <br>disks. Of course if you power down a machine immediately after a write() <br>call you will often see disk corruption, so either part of the Microsoft <br>filesystem layer or the Microsoft applications treat floppy disks <br>differently than non-removeable disks. Anyone used to working on POSIX <br>style operating systems is of course accustomed to mounting and unmounting <br>disks, so I don't think it will be a surprise.<br><br></pre>
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Is there an unmount? I think I asked about this and was told there was not
an unmount.<br>
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