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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>sync</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="swizzle.html" title="swizzle"/><link rel="next" href="syntactic-salt.html" title="syntactic salt"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">sync</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="swizzle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="syntactic-salt.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="sync"/><dt xmlns="" id="sync"><b>sync</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/sink/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">vi.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (var.: <span class="firstterm">synch</span>) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk; see
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<a href="../F/flush.html"><i class="glossterm">flush</i></a>, sense 2. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. More generally, to force a number of competing processes or
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agents to a state that would be ‘safe’ if the system were to
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crash; thus, to checkpoint (in the database-theory sense).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="swizzle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="syntactic-salt.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">swizzle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> syntactic salt</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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