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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
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"Patrick J. LoPresti" <patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu> writes:


[snip sendmail/cyrus/qmail/postfix]

 Just in case anyone cares here's what exim does (AFAICS)...

 int fd1 = open(f1);
 write(fd1);
 fsync(fd1);
 
 int fd2 = open(tmp);
 write(fd2);
 fsync(fd2);
 rename(tmp, f2); // Good at this point.

 So that seems to rely on all dir operations being sync.

 Ps. I did a patch for exim to do the dir sync though...

http://www.and.org/exim-3.31-dirfsync.patch

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