[Python-Dev] wait time [was: Ext4 data loss]

[Leif Walsh]

On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 20:25 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> I disagree. The user usually does not know which kind of flushing is needed in
> order for his data to be safe. Actually, he probably doesn't even know what
> flushing means, and that files are ever "closed".
> 
> However, I also think that any parameter to flush() or close() is a bad idea,
> since it can't be used when flushing and closing is implicit. For example when
> the file is used in a "with" statement.

Perhaps this is an argument that the "synciness" of a file should be
defined when it is opened?  This doesn't give very much control to the
programmer, but it certainly seems easy to use correctly.

-- 
Cheers,
Leif
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