Re: should frontend tools use syncfs() ?

On 17.08.23 04:50, Michael Paquier wrote:
>> Yeah, this crossed my mind.  Do you know of any existing examples of
>> options with links to a common section?  One problem with this approach is
>> that there are small differences in the wording for some of the frontend
>> utilities, so it might be difficult to cleanly unite these sections.
> The closest thing I can think of is Color Support in section
> Appendixes, that describes something shared across a lot of binaries
> (that would be 6 tools with this patch).

I think it's a bit much to add a whole appendix for that little content.

We have a collection of platform-specific notes in chapter 19, including 
file-system-related notes in section 19.2.  Maybe it could be put there?