create()

[Kenneth Brody]

On 9/1/2013 2:44 PM, Richard Kreiss wrote:
> A number of us have found that trying to read a file just after a close
> fails.  Sleep nnn paused the processing enough for the operating system
> and program to get into sync and allow the file to be read or executed.
[...]

Then there's an O/S and/or network bug.

By the time the write() system call returns, all data written should be 
available to any process that reads that file, even if that data is still in 
cache.

-- 
Kenneth Brody