Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

syncmore about sync

sync


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sync 
  v  :  make  synchronous  and  adjust  in  time  or  manner;  "Let's 
  synchronize  our  efforts"  [syn:  {synchronize}]  [ant:  {desynchronize}] 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  sync  /sink/  n.,  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). 
 
 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  sync 
 
  /sink/  (Or  "synch")  1.  To  synchronise,  to  bring  into 
  synchronisation. 
 
  2.    To  force  ("{flush}")  all  pending  buffered 
  disk  writes  to  the  disk. 
 
  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,  i.e.  to  {checkpoint}  in  the  {database}  sense 
 
  [{Jargon  File}] 
 
  (1994-11-11) 
 
 




more about sync