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bug#22768: Crash safety
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#22768: Crash safety |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Feb 2016 23:28:07 -0800 |
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Thanks for reporting the problem. It's annoying that gzip must invoke fsync, as
that's way overkill compared to the write-ordering that is needed and fsync will
slow gzip down, but I don't see any safe and reasonably portable alternative so
I installed the attached patch on Savannah, here:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gzip.git/commit/?id=22aac8f8a616a72dbbe0e4119db8ddda0f076c04
0001-fsync-output-file-before-closing.txt
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