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-rw-r--r-- | man2/sync.2 | 24 |
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diff --git a/man2/sync.2 b/man2/sync.2 index 21f01d7..a556c8e 100644 --- a/man2/sync.2 +++ b/man2/sync.2 @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ .\" Modified 2001-10-10 by aeb, following Michael Kerrisk. .\" 2011-09-07, mtk, Added syncfs() documentation, .\" -.TH sync 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH sync 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME sync, syncfs \- commit filesystem caches to disk .SH LIBRARY @@ -22,17 +22,17 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <unistd.h> -.PP +.P .B void sync(void); -.PP +.P .BI "int syncfs(int " fd ); .fi -.PP +.P .RS -4 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR feature_test_macros (7)): .RE -.PP +.P .BR sync (): .nf _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see || /* Since glibc 2.19: */ _DEFAULT_SOURCE || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE .fi -.PP +.P .BR syncfs (): .nf _GNU_SOURCE @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see .BR sync () causes all pending modifications to filesystem metadata and cached file data to be written to the underlying filesystems. -.PP +.P .BR syncfs () is like .BR sync (), @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ to indicate the error. .SH ERRORS .BR sync () is always successful. -.PP +.P .BR syncfs () can fail for at least the following reasons: .TP @@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ metadata related to the filesystem itself. .B ENOSPC Disk space was exhausted while synchronizing. .TP -.BR ENOSPC ", " EDQUOT +.B ENOSPC +.TQ +.B EDQUOT Data was written to a file on NFS or another filesystem which does not allocate space at the time of a .BR write (2) @@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ POSIX.1-2001, SVr4, 4.3BSD. .BR syncfs () Linux 2.6.39, glibc 2.14. -.PP +.P Since glibc 2.2.2, the Linux prototype for .BR sync () is as listed above, @@ -125,7 +127,7 @@ In glibc 2.2.1 and earlier, it was "int sync(void)", and .BR sync () always returned 0. -.PP +.P In mainline kernel versions prior to Linux 5.8, .BR syncfs () will fail only when passed a bad file descriptor |