[Python-checkins] r69520 - python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst

Thu Feb 12 04:50:00 CET 2009

Author: benjamin.peterson
Date: Thu Feb 12 04:50:00 2009
New Revision: 69520
Log:
os.fsync() should be used to ensure that data is written to disk
Modified:
 python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst
==============================================================================

--- python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst	(original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst	Thu Feb 12 04:50:00 2009
@@ -2110,6 +2110,11 @@
 Flush the internal buffer, like ``stdio``'s :cfunc:`fflush`. This may be a
 no-op on some file-like objects.
 
+ .. note::
+
+ :meth:`flush` does not necessarily write the file's data to disk. Use
+ :meth:`flush` followed by :func:`os.fsync` to ensure this behavior.
+
 
 .. method:: file.fileno()
 
