From: Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr>
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 12:15:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: doc: mention persistence caveats in sync man page
X-Git-Tag: v8.24~108
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e00571921136ceca2e60021eb7734c27cabf854b;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

doc: mention persistence caveats in sync man page

* man/sync.x ([BUGS]): Mention the caveats and reference
the system call man pages for more details.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19995

Debian bug #507085 reported by jidanni@jidanni.org
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diff --git a/man/sync.x b/man/sync.x
index 79fee22700..18ee3fc44c 100644
--- a/man/sync.x
+++ b/man/sync.x
@@ -2,5 +2,8 @@
 sync \- Synchronize cached writes to persistent storage
 [DESCRIPTION]
 .\" Add any additional description here
+[BUGS]
+Persistence guarantees vary per system.
+See the system calls below for more details.
 [SEE ALSO]
 fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)