MB> You cannot sync the filesystem into a state where it is, in essence,
 MB> safe to abend.  All you achieve by sync is flushing
 MB> unwritten cache data to the media. In order to stop

That's what I'd like to do, at a minimum.

 MB> the filesystem, you need to close all open files on
 MB> that filesystem.  Since even the operating system
 MB> retains open file handles into EXE and DLL files at
 MB> all times it is running, not to mention the system
 MB> swap file, it is impossible to stop the filesystem
 MB> just by flushing the cache.

I'm not looking to stop the file systems, just to flush whatever data is in
the caches to disk to minimize the chance of any data being lost.

Take a look at the DosShutdown( 1 ) documentation in the Control Program
Reference.  Doesn't it sound to you like the documentation indicates this
is what it does?

I've removed the call I was making to DosShutdown( 1 ), however,because it
totally hoses up named pipes and DosResetBuffer(). After DosShutdown( 1 )
runs, DosResetBuffer() never works correctly again until the machine is
rebooted.

So what would you use to force the cache to flush to disk?

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