[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Mar 12 00:17:58 CET 2009


Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> That should be implement by passing O_SYNC on open, rather than
> explicitly calling fsync.

On platforms which have it (MacOSX doesn't seem to,
according to the man page).

This is another good reason to put these things in the
mode string.

-- 
Greg


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