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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/sync.c, revision 1.1

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        !             3: sync                         Command                         sync
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        !             8: Flush system buffers
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        !            12: Most COHERENT commands manipulate files stored on a disk.  To im-
        !            13: prove  system performance,  the COHERENT  system often  changes a
        !            14: copy  of part  of the  disk in  a buffer  in memory,  rather than
        !            15: repeatedly performing the time-consuming disk access required.
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        !            17: sync writes information from  the memory buffers to the disk, up-
        !            18: dating the  disk images  of all  mounted file systems  which have
        !            19: been changed.   In addition, it  writes the date and  time on the
        !            20: root file system.
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        !            22: sync should be executed  before system shutdown to ensure the in-
        !            23: tegrity of the file system.
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        !            25: ***** See Also *****
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