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

[Phil B]

You're kidding, right? (re: not being able to trust systems in the 90's)

On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 9:41 PM Andres Valloud via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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 assumptions that are no longer valid today.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.
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