Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Jul 2013 14:48:09 -0400 | Subject | write(2) and page cache | From | dmi p <> |
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Hi, When I write(2) on a file such that the size of the buffer being written is less than the page size, and the page is not in the page cache, does the write syscall block until the page is brought into the page cache from disk (to modify it and eventually write back), or is the page reading part async with respect to write?
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