Memo magic is really distressing filepro user

[Fairlight]

With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
> Quoting Fairlight (Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:49:18 -0400):
> [... export and close ...]
> > Incidentally, that was precisely the problem this gentleman had;
> > there was a race condition between end of exporting and a command that
> > was to do something with the file via system().  We even tried inserting
> > pauses, to no effect.  That buffer plain does -not- flush no matter how
> > long you give it.  We're talking about an attempted 15 second sleep
> > failing to produce results.  It's just obviously not hitting the VFS
> > layer for commit to disk.
> 
> Did you "close" or "write" the export?  If not, then what magic are you
> expecting will flush buffers during a 15-second sleep?

1) I didn't write the original code or there would have been a close to
begin with.  Actually, I'd never have used export, I'd have used raw file
I/O commands.  I don't like export, never have.

2) I was working (originally) under the assumption that the data had been
written from the buffer to disk, and the VFS may just not have caught up;
thinking perhaps that the data was still cached for write.

Obviously, that proved an incorrect assumption.

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