[Cuis-dev] [Integrated] Re: #forceChangesToDisk

[Andres Valloud]

On 9/16/19 17:45, Phil B wrote:
> It's the flushing of the buffer (which is still there) that is the 
> important bit.  That signals to the OS 'OK, make sure this data 
> written'.

Exactly :).

> The rest of the code was a hack to basically try to force the 
> OS to do the write immediately.  This used to work[2], but per the 
> conversation on squeak-dev, no longer does.  My position is that even if 
> it still does work in some cases, it's a hack that was based on a set of 
> assumptions that are no longer valid today.

Yeah, what's the deal with asking the OS to flush the file and then not 
trusting it did its job?

Andres.