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> Unix is dumb

I don't know. Now async I/O is all the rage and that is the same idea.

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wmf6mo ago· 1 in thread

If they had a sync() system call and a wait_for_sync_to_finish() system call then you'd be right. But they didn't have those.

marcosdumay6mo ago· 1 in thread

The syscall is literally called "sync", though.

I think it is a way of the OS to shoehorn async into a synchronously written application.

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