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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-04-21 14:28:53 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-04-21 14:28:53 +0200 |
| commit | 03117dc0dbf8982b673a47ca3b88936b5fea227e (patch) | |
| tree | 0874c4ea943b924cde9aff7bd6c0be93d5b419a7 | |
| parent | 0a8909c47492a617a769dfeed7f72d96dacf927c (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-03117dc0dbf8982b673a47ca3b88936b5fea227e.tar.gz | |
fsync.2: Give some examples of files where sync can fail with EINVAL
Reported-by: Georg Sauthoff <gsauthof@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/fsync.2 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man2/fsync.2 b/man2/fsync.2 index 76dcf96b1a..655b09a30c 100644 --- a/man2/fsync.2 +++ b/man2/fsync.2 @@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ An error occurred during synchronization. .TP .BR EROFS ", " EINVAL .I fd -is bound to a special file which does not support synchronization. +is bound to a special file (e.g., a pipe, FIFO, or socket) +which does not support synchronization. .SH CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD. .SH AVAILABILITY |