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Diffstat (limited to 'runtime')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/eval.txt | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/eval.txt b/runtime/doc/eval.txt index 727199f742..7060cc4186 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/eval.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/eval.txt @@ -7916,10 +7916,11 @@ writefile({list}, {fname} [, {flags}]) :call writefile(["foo"], "event.log", "a") :call writefile(["bar"], "event.log", "a") < - When {flags} contains "S" fsync() call is not used. This means - that writefile() will finish faster, but writes may be left in - OS buffers and not yet written to disk. Such changes will - disappear if system crashes before OS does writing. + When {flags} contains "S" fsync() call is not used, with "s" + it is used, 'fsync' option applies by default. No fsync() + means that writefile() will finish faster, but writes may be + left in OS buffers and not yet written to disk. Such changes + will disappear if system crashes before OS does writing. All NL characters are replaced with a NUL character. Inserting CR characters needs to be done before passing {list} |