[Python-Dev] Ext4 data loss

[Nick Coghlan]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> The tempfile module would be another example.
> 
> Do you really need your temporary files to survive system crashes? ;)

No, but they need to provide the full file API. If we add a sync()
method to file objects, that becomes part of the "file-like" API.

On the performance side... the overhead from fsync() itself is going to
dwarf the CPU overhead of going through a wrapper class.

Cheers,
Nick.

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