From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 19:47:14 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Clarified new fsync() docs.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~1059
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d1c846b738d72d007569e59dbd96401a0002118;p=python

Clarified new fsync() docs.
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libos.tex b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
index 84376142dd..9714036055 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libos.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libos.tex
@@ -448,14 +448,15 @@ Availability: \UNIX.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{fsync}{fd}
-Force write of file with filedescriptor \var{fd} to disk.
+Force write of file with filedescriptor \var{fd} to disk.  On \UNIX,
+this calls the native \cfunction{fsync()} function; on Windows, the
+MS \cfunction{_commit()} function.
 
-On Windows this calls the MS \cfunction{_commit()} function.  If you're
-starting with a Python file object \var{f}, first do
+If you're starting with a Python file object \var{f}, first do
 \code{\var{f}.flush()}, and then do \code{os.fsync(\var{f}.fileno()},
 to ensure that all internal buffers associated with \var{f} are written
 to disk.
-Availability: \UNIX, and Windows starting in 2.3.
+Availability: \UNIX, and Windows starting in 2.2.3.
 \end{funcdesc}
 
 \begin{funcdesc}{ftruncate}{fd, length}