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SYNC(2) FreeBSD System Calls Manual SYNC(2)

sync
schedule file system updates

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <unistd.h>

void
sync(void);

The sync() system call forces a write of dirty (modified) buffers in the block buffer cache out to disk. The kernel keeps this information in core to reduce the number of disk I/O transfers required by the system. As information in the cache is lost after a system crash, a sync() system call is issued frequently by the kernel process syncer(4) (about every 30 seconds).

The fsync(2) system call may be used to synchronize individual file descriptor attributes.

fsync(2), syncer(4), sync(8)

The sync() function appeared in Version 3 AT&T UNIX.

The sync() system call may return before the buffers are completely flushed.
December 1, 2017 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE

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