os: add Sync to *File, wraps syscall.Fsync

R=rsc, brainman, r, r2
CC=golang-dev
http://codereview.appspot.com/3887042

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/os/file.go b/src/pkg/os/file.go
index 909e28e68..3f73f1dff 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/file.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/file.go
@@ -408,6 +408,19 @@ func (f *File) Truncate(size int64) Error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Sync commits the current contents of the file to stable storage.
+// Typically, this means flushing the file system's in-memory copy
+// of recently written data to disk.
+func (file *File) Sync() (err Error) {
+	if file == nil {
+		return EINVAL
+	}
+	if e := syscall.Fsync(file.fd); e != 0 {
+		return NewSyscallError("fsync", e)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
 // Chtimes changes the access and modification times of the named
 // file, similar to the Unix utime() or utimes() functions.
 //
diff --git a/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_windows.go b/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_windows.go
index b425337bf..9501779e1 100644
--- a/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_windows.go
+++ b/src/pkg/syscall/syscall_windows.go
@@ -684,6 +684,9 @@ func Chown(path string, uid int, gid int) (errno int)     { return EWINDOWS }
 func Lchown(path string, uid int, gid int) (errno int)    { return EWINDOWS }
 func Fchown(fd int, uid int, gid int) (errno int)         { return EWINDOWS }
 
+// TODO(brainman): use FlushFileBuffers Windows api to implement Fsync.
+func Fsync(fd int) (errno int) { return EWINDOWS }
+
 func Getuid() (uid int)                  { return -1 }
 func Geteuid() (euid int)                { return -1 }
 func Getgid() (gid int)                  { return -1 }