Sync

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sync
/sink/
Usage: vi.
Derivation: Techspeak


sync: /sink/ vi.

(var.: synch)

  1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see flush, sense 2.
  3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were to crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).
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Source: sync, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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