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NAME
       syncupdate - update files with synchronously written data


SYNOPSIS
       syncupdate [ -c tempfile ] source dest


DESCRIPTION
       syncupdate  copies  or  renames  source  to  dest, making sure that the
       information in source has been synchronously written out to disk before
       performing the final rename.

       If the -c flag is given, syncupdate will copy the contents of source to
       tempfile, push the contents of tempfile to  disk  using  fsync(2),  and
       then  rename  tempfile  to dest.  tempfile will be removed prior to the
       copy.  syncupdate will preserve the  mode  of  source  when  generating
       tempfile, but not the ownership information.

       If  the -c flag is not given, syncupdate will open source, use fsync(2)
       to push its contents to disk, and then rename source to dest.


AUTHOR
       Greg Hudson, MIT Information Systems
       Copyright 1999 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

                               28 December 1999                  SYNCUPDATE(1)