Re: coreutils patch to port to hosts lacking fsync

[Paul Eggert]

Matthew Woehlke <address@hidden> writes:

> Ack, I must apologize for giving wrong information. What I meant to
> say is that there is no /sync/ (oddly enough, there is fsync on
> NSK). So building 'sync' is silly

Not really.  Shell scripts use 'sync'.  Even if it's a noop
it's nice to have.

Google code says several other programs test for HAVE_FSYNC (e.g.,
glimpse, ruby) so I still think the patch is reasonable, even though I
don't know which systems lack fsync.