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Augustin Cavalier 74e882b39b kernel/fs: Flush the underlying device's write cache as part of sync(). BFS does this as part of journal management, but not as part of block cache synchronization (which makes sense, as flushing it then would defeat the purpose of the drive's write cache.) No other file system seems to touch it at all, so we should do it as part of an explicit sync. This may help with some of the filesystem corruption issues, as it seems that on slow disks, the drive might not have enough time to flush the cache before it is powered off (or on some SATA/AHCI based disks, it is not flushed before close at all), so triggering it here and, as the ioctl is supposed to be synchronous, waiting for it also, seems to make sense. Change-Id: I7d9992c21ca4b59c839711dcc96c973b4b8df052 Reviewed-on: https://review.haiku-os.org/530 Reviewed-by: Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@gmail.com>		2018-09-11 20:06:58 +00:00
3rdparty	3rdparty/qtcreator: bash, not sh.	2018-08-01 18:23:15 -04:00
build	Remove the "Haiku" screensaver from the tree.	2018-09-10 19:51:02 -04:00
data	Translations: Add Catalan, Greek and Korean	2018-09-08 07:20:47 +00:00
docs	Fix documentation for BMessage::Previous	2018-08-28 19:14:57 +02:00
headers	Support : Fixes for Relative URL Handling	2018-09-11 18:39:53 +00:00
src	kernel/fs: Flush the underlying device's write cache as part of sync().	2018-09-11 20:06:58 +00:00
.editorconfig	editorconfig: Add new config file around our unique style	2017-09-26 14:22:32 -05:00
.gitignore	.gitignore: Ignore .DS_Store (Mac OS X directory attribute files).	2016-06-18 18:25:40 -04:00
.gitreview	gerrit: Add .gitreview config	2018-01-04 00:04:02 -06:00
configure	configure: Clean up BuildConfig generation and add HOST_CC.	2018-08-15 14:40:03 -04:00
Jamfile	build: Drop specalized haiku-boot-cd-ppc target	2018-07-09 09:46:30 -05:00
Jamrules	build: delete DocumentationRules.	2015-06-22 13:20:07 -04:00
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ReadMe.Compiling.md	build: Cleanup of libgnuregex usage.	2018-03-07 18:04:31 -05:00
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ReadMe.md

Haiku

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Haiku is an open-source operating system that specifically targets personal computing. Inspired by the BeOS, Haiku is fast, simple to use, easy to learn and yet very powerful.

Goals

Sensible defaults with minimal configuration required.
Clean, clear, concise code.
Unified desktop environment.

Trying Haiku

Haiku provides pre-built nightly images and release images. Haiku is compatible with a large variety of hardware, but in case you don't want to "take the plunge" and install Haiku on bare metal, you can install it on a virtual machine (VM) instead. If you've never used a VM before, you can follow one of the "Emulating Haiku" guides.

Compiling Haiku

See ReadMe.Compiling.

Contributing

Haiku is a meritocratic open source project with a large variety of tasks. Even if you can't write code, you can still help! Haiku needs designers, (technical) writers, translators, testers... Get involved and help out!

Contributing code

If you're submitting a patch to us, please make sure you're following the patch submitting guidelines.

If you're having trouble finding something in the source tree, you can use one of our OpenGrok servers:

http://xref.plausible.coop/ (provided by Landon Fuller)
http://code.metager.de/source/xref/haiku (provided by MetaGer)

Contributing documentation

The main piece of documentation that still needs work are the API docs (found in the tree at docs/user). Just find an undocumented class, write documentation for it, and submit a patch.