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[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1

[Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1 [Python-Dev] Re: RELEASED Python 2.3.1Charles 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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