How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

[C. P. Ghost]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga <unga888 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk?
>
> I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk.
>
> I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read.

It shouldn't matter: as soon as write(2) completes, the
system-wide file cache -- not the disk -- is updated, and
other users will transparently read(2) from that cache,
not from the disk.

What you probably want is to flush the userspace buffers
of your I/O library as soon as you write a line of output:
See fflush(3), set[v]buf(3)... You may also use a non-buffered
stream for writing logs.

fsync(2) has other uses. In particular, it is of NO use as
long as the logging application doesn't flush its I/O caches
itself.

> Best regards
> Unga

-cpghost.

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