Re: effect of strip(1) on du(1)

On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd-rwg_at_pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
...
> Even if that is the case file system cache effects should NOT be
> visible to a userland process.   This is NOT as if your running
> 2 different processing beating on a file.  Your test cases are
> serialially syncronous shell invoked commands seperated with
> && the results should be exact and predictable.
>
> When strip returns the operation from the userland perspecive
> is completed and any and all processeses started after that
> should have the view of the completed strip command.
>
> This IS a bug.

Would the same statement necessarily apply if the filesystem was
writing things asynchronously to the backing storage?
Thanks,
-Ngie