Likewise, if you think you think you need a sync(), you're wrong. idk how common that is these days, but I saw it all over, used basically blindly to "fix" all

Likewise, if you think you think you need a sync(), you're wrong. idk how common that is these days, but I saw it all over, used basically blindly to "fix" all manner of mystery reliability problems and never not one of those countless examples was that ever actually the problem or the fix. It was always simply failing to close a file before trying to do something else with it from some other context like a system() command. It was used mystic-dead-chicken style even worse that sticking sleeps everywhere for no actually understood reason.