Juhan Oskar Hennoste

> sync_all is the superset that works with all standards-compliant filesystems. that's the portable approach. Point taken. I just think there is a sizable subset of programs that will never...

Overall, I feel like this discussion is going around in circles. Ultimately there is no optimal solution for all cases, so this is all about balancing tradeoffs and we just...

Agreed, I don't think there's a legitimate use for retry support. AFAIK after close returns the file descriptor is either closed or in an unspecified state. In either case, retrying...