[Python-Dev] Thankyou for fsync :)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
>   fsync() isn't listed in O'Reilly's POSIX book, so it's probably not
> in the POSIX spec.  Neither is the tempnam() function I added in
> yesterdays spree, though tmpfile() and tmpnam() are.

instead of guessing, you can get a complete
list from:

http://www.unix-systems.org/apis.html

reading up on the "single unix specification"
should also help:

http://www.unix-systems.org/online.html

(registration required; contains complete man
pages for all functions covered by the UNIX95
and UNIX98 specification)

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