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| author | fair <fair@NetBSD.org> | 1998-04-28 18:05:53 +0000 |
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| committer | fair <fair@NetBSD.org> | 1998-04-28 18:05:53 +0000 |
| commit | 416fd8edd408dbfb9638c19f4389233eaf8f85e6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7667c0c4caebfda635ea8c9fac9aec6027d8519c /bin/sync/sync.8 | |
| parent | fe40034faecaa9eb33a453f3ae287dfc10543be7 (diff) | |
fix mdoc references
Diffstat (limited to 'bin/sync/sync.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/sync/sync.8 | 24 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/bin/sync/sync.8 b/bin/sync/sync.8 index b18028381ef..2267697d2b0 100644 --- a/bin/sync/sync.8 +++ b/bin/sync/sync.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: sync.8,v 1.6 1995/03/21 09:11:35 cgd Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: sync.8,v 1.7 1998/04/28 18:05:53 fair Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993 .\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. @@ -42,26 +42,28 @@ .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm sync .Sh DESCRIPTION -.Nm Sync -can be called to insure that all disk writes have been completed before the -processor is halted in a way not suitably done by +The +.Nm +program can be called to insure that all disk writes have been +completed before the processor is halted in a way not suitably done by .Xr reboot 8 or .Xr halt 8 . Generally, it is preferable to use -.Xr reboot +.Xr reboot 8 or -.Xr halt +.Xr halt 8 to shut down the system, as they may perform additional actions such as resynchronizing the hardware clock and flushing internal caches before performing a final -.Nm sync . +.Nm "" . .Pp -.Nm Sync -utilizes the +The +.Nm +program simply invokes the .Xr sync 2 -function call. +system call. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sync 2 , .Xr fsync 2 , @@ -70,6 +72,6 @@ function call. .Xr update 8 .Sh HISTORY A -.Nm sync +.Nm command appeared in .At v6 . |
