sync
/sink/ (Or "synch") 1. To synchronise, to bring into synchronisation.<file system >
2. To force ("flush") all pending buffered disk writes to the disk. 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be "safe" if the system were to crash, i.e. to checkpoint in the database sense. [Jargon File]
Last updated: 1994年11月11日
Nearby terms:
SYN ♦ sync ♦ Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language ♦ synchronous
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