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@@ -34,10 +34,22 @@ man --- bzip2 Compression-side support. - +--- +init + General cleanup. Architectural issues: +bb_close() with fsync() + We should have a bb_close() in place of normal close, with a CONFIG_ option + to not just check the return value of close() for an error, but fsync(). + Close can't reliably report anything useful because if write() accepted the + data then it either went out or it's in cache or a pipe buffer. Either way, + there's no guarantee it'll make it to its final destination before close() + gets called, so there's no guarantee that any error will be reported. + You need to call fsync() if you care about errors that occur after write(), + but that can have a big performance impact. So make it a config option. +--- Do a SUSv3 audit Look at the full Single Unix Specification version 3 (available online at "http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html") and |