sync() not implemented by rumpfs

[Norman Feske]

Hi Adrian,

> What does this mean for Nova applications ? Must they organize save
> shutdown of a file system ?
> How would they do that ?

Genode's general mechanism to destroy subsystems works as follows: When
the parent decides to destroy a subsystem, it closes all sessions that
were opened by the subsystem in reverse order. Naturally, those sessions
comprise, among others, all file-system sessions held by the subsystem.
>From the file system's point of view, this event looks like the client
issued a session-close request. The current approach would be to let the
file-system call sync each time when a file-system session is closed.

Currently, there is no separate mechanism in place to gracefully shut
down services.

Cheers
Norman

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