When upgrading a package with RPM version 4.4.2 in SUSE doesn't call fsync()!  
It creates a temporary file (without using O_SYNC), writes all the data to 
it, closes it, and then renames it to replace the original file.

Has this horrible mistake been fixed in the upstream tree?

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