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open(2): fix the description of O_FSYNC

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open(2): fix the description of O_FSYNC

The man page claims that with O_FSYNC (aka O_SYNC) the kernel will not cache
written data. However, that's not true. Nor does POSIX require it.
Perhaps it was true when that section of the man page was written in r69336
(I haven't checked). But it's not true now. Now the effect is simply that
writes are sent to disk immediately and synchronously, but they're still
cached.

See also: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
See also: ffs_write in sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vnops.c

Reviewed by: cem
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20641

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cem
Differential Revision
D20641: open(2): fix the description of O_FSYNC
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rS349040: Minimize aggsum_compare(&arc_size, arc_c) calls.
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