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authorkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-07 14:01:08 +0000
committerkeramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org>2005-01-07 14:01:08 +0000
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The .Fn macro and addition of .Fa in the tag width of the
argument description list.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/VFS_SYNC.917
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/VFS_SYNC.9 b/share/man/man9/VFS_SYNC.9
index c0e9052..bd3fdfe 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/VFS_SYNC.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/VFS_SYNC.9
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 24, 1996
+.Dd January 7, 2004
.Os
.Dt VFS_SYNC 9
.Sh NAME
@@ -41,10 +41,13 @@
.Ft int
.Fn VFS_SYNC "struct mount *mp" "int waitfor" "struct ucred *cred" "struct thread *td"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-This writes out all unwritten data in a file system.
+The
+.Fn VFS_SYNC
+macro writes out all unwritten data in the file system mounted as
+.Fa mp .
.Pp
-Its arguments are:
-.Bl -tag -width waitfor
+The arguments it expects are:
+.Bl -tag -width ".Fa waitfor"
.It Fa mp
The file system.
.It Fa waitfor
@@ -64,7 +67,11 @@ The caller's credentials.
The calling thread.
.El
.Pp
-This would normally call
+The
+.Fn VFS_SYNC
+macro calls the
+.Va vfs_sync
+method of the filesystem, which normally calls
.Xr VOP_FSYNC 9
for all the vnodes in the file system.
.Sh SEE ALSO
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