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35 .Nd synchronize the data of a file
41 .Fn fdatasync "int fd"
45 function forces all modified data associated with the file descriptor
47 to be flushed to stable storage.
49 The functionality is as described for
51 with the exception that file status information need not be synchronized,
52 which may result in a performance gain, compared to
54 This behaviour is commonly known as
56 synchronized I/O data integrity completion.
59 A value of 0 is returned on success.
60 Otherwise, a value \-1 is returned and
62 is set to indicate the error.
66 function will fail if:
71 argument is not a valid file descriptor open for writing.
73 This implementation does not support synchronized I/O for this file.
77 function is not supported by this implementation.
80 In the event that any of the I/O operations to be performed fail,
82 returns the error conditions defined for
86 and outstanding I/O operations are not guaranteed to have been completed.