[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1 (original) (raw)

Charles Cazabon python at discworld.dyndns.org
Sat Sep 27 12:09:40 EDT 2003

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

"Jason R. Mastaler" <jason at mastaler.com> writes:

> > I don't think the problem is severe; os.fsync is rarely used. > > How did you arrive at this notion? >From four considerations: [...] 3. To use it, you have to worry about data getting on the disk - this really requires some kind of expert application.

Yes, like delivering mail, or writing to a database, or doing any of a thousand other tasks that use the filesystem to store and synchronize data.

os.fsync() breakage is a /big/ problem, particularly because the resulting traceback makes users think the application is broken, not the interpreter.

Charles

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