[Mailman-Developers] Problem with MM after power outage

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:11 PM +0200 2003/08/25, Simone Piunno wrote:

>    fsync(fd)
>    Force write of file with filedescriptor fd to disk. On Unix, this calls the
>    native fsync() function; on Windows, the MS _commit() function.
>    If you're starting with a Python file object f, first do 
>f.flush(), and then
>    do os.fsync(f.fileno()), to ensure that all internal buffers 
>associated with
>    f are written to disk. Availability: Unix, and Windows starting in 2.2.3.

	That's the one you want.  You're getting nailed on the meta-data 
which is not being flushed to disk before the rename.

>  Because the python documentation says nothing about close() calling fsync()
>  automatically, I assume it does not.

	Indeed.  ;(

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