Randall R Schulz wrote:
Greg,
On Friday 21 October 2005 13:21, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 10/20/05, Randall R Schulz
wrote: ... For those of us that work in UNIX environments in addition to Linux it is safest to do the double sync. i.e In general it takes 2 syncs to ensure data is flushed, but with Linux it is safe to do only one.
Now, what's that expression??
Oh, yeah, that's it: BS!
I'm sorry, but nonsense is nonsense.
...
Greg
Randall Schulz
I don't know if this Mac Donalds advert appeared elsewhere in the States, but it was on TV in Northern California ... "Eddie the echo", the guy who repeated everything twice, until one day when he placed his order, to great surprise he didn't repeat it and was puzzled by the look on the young lady's face, then she said "Eddie, you didn't repeat your order", that's the stuff Unix myths are made of. I've seen most of my erstwhile colleagues hitting the enter key umpteen times every time before they type anything into an xterm on Solaris. This prompted me one day to ask a guy why they all do that, he said he didn't know and that was the way all the other guys did it. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks