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On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Matthias Andree wrote:

> The standard is only useful if it specifies how to get data safely on
> disk - it is quite explicit for fsync(), but you evidently cannot
> fsync() a link().

As Linus said, fsync() on the directory.

Rik
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