PL5 in progress ...

["Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

>Also, MiNT itself could call this every so often, just incase there's no
>daemon running. MiNT would also call this when init exits. Maybe Fsync()
>should have a partner, SFsync() ie Shutdown-filesystem-synchronise which
>would let the filesystems do final synchronisation and possibly set a bit in
>the header telling any future auto-fscking program that the filesystem need
>not be checked at boot time, just as SunOS 4.1.[23] and SunOS 5.x does.

I think this is a good idea, but it would only require another vector
for the filesystem to install such a handler; no user process would
ever want to indicate a final filesystem shutdown so it's just as well
to not have an operating system call for it.

Cheers,
entropy