bug#22768: Crash safety

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> You may well be right that eventually file system designers will figure 
> this stuff out so that well-written POSIX applications will not lose 
> data even if they don't use fsync/fdatasync. However, if FSCQ is any 
> indication, we're many years away from that. In the meantime 
> fsync/fdatasync is all we have.

Thanks for the explanation. I have already started the last round of 
release candidates of the lzip family, but just after releasing 
lzip-1.18, in a month or so, i'll implement --synchronous in a way 
compatible with what you implement in gzip.


Best regards,
Antonio.