7 Commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Stéphane Aulery	e005719211	doc: mention persistence caveats in sync man page ... * man/sync.x ([BUGS]): Mention the caveats and reference the system call man pages for more details. Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19995 Debian bug #507085 reported by jidanni@jidanni.org	2015-03-05 12:21:50 +00:00
Giuseppe Scrivano	8b2bf5295f	sync: support syncing specified arguments ... * m4/jm-macros.m4 (coreutils_MACROS): Check for syncfs(). * man/sync.x: Add references to syncfs, fsync and fdatasync. * doc/coreutils.texi (sync invocation): Document the new feature. * src/sync.c: Include "quote.h". (AUTHORS): Include myself. (MODE_FILE, MODE_DATA, MODE_FILE_SYSTEM, MODE_SYNC): New enum values. (long_options): Define. (sync_arg): New function. (usage): Describe that arguments are now accepted. (main): Add arguments parsing and add support for fsync(2), fdatasync(2) and syncfs(2). * tests/misc/sync.sh: New (and only) test for sync. * tests/local.mk: Reference the new test. * AUTHORS: Add myself to sync's authors. * NEWS: Mention the new feature.	2015-01-28 10:50:45 +00:00
Jim Meyering	2810f3534b	Add `SEE ALSO' references to syscalls from utilities of the same name.	2006-03-06 15:27:50 +00:00
Jim Meyering	26fffc510b	Use "file system" rather than "filesystem".	2004-06-30 22:15:59 +00:00
Jim Meyering	d8c942fdef	change ." to .\"	2000-02-01 10:34:35 +00:00
Jim Meyering	57808ffdb5	include summary in [NAME] section	1999-11-02 13:51:42 +00:00
Jim Meyering	6d16699fff	.	1998-09-12 20:12:55 +00:00