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Bojan Smojver wrote:
> Bojan Smojver <bojan <at> rexursive.com> writes:
>
>   
>> That was stupid. Ignore me.
>>     
>
> And yet, FreeBSD seems to have a command just like that:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fsync&sektion=1&manpath=FreeBSD+7.1-RELEASE
>   

I was thinking something like "munge_important_stuff | fsync > output" - 
ie, cat which fsyncs on close.  In fact, its vaguely surprising that GNU 
cat doesn't have this already.

    J