Bug #5837: IO#fsync documentation typo quickfix

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: 1.9.3

[kyledrake (Kyle Drake)]

The documentation IO#fsync says:

"Immediately writes all buffered data in ios to disk. Note that fsync differs from using IO#sync=. The latter ensures that data is flushed from Ruby’s buffers, but doesn’t not guarantee that the underlying operating system actually writes it to disk."

I believe the "doesn't not" should be changed to "does not". Fsync(2) traditionally guarantees that the operating system writes to disk, so I'm assuming that IO#sync does not and that IO#fsync does.

There is probably a better description that could be written here, but this clears up the typo for the interim.

[tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)]

• Assignee changed from tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) to drbrain (Eric Hodel)

[drbrain (Eric Hodel)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed