fsync

OS/161 Reference Manual

Name

fsync - flush filesystem data for a specific file to disk

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Synopsis

#include <unistd.h>

int
fsync(int fd);

Description

The fsync function forces a write of dirty filesystem buffers and other dirty filesystem state associated with the object referred to by fd to be written to disk.

fsync should not return until the writes are complete.

Return Values

On success, fsync returns 0. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set according to the error encountered.

Errors

The following error codes should be returned under the conditions given. Other error codes may be returned for other cases not mentioned here.
  EBADF fd is not a valid file handle.
EIO A hard I/O error occurred.