Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:20:52 +0200 | From | Meelis Roos <> | Subject | Re: raw drive access for databases |
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CS> OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if someday there were an fcntl() that CS> turned off buffering for a specific fd.
Or an option for open() like O_NOCACHE. In fact, fcntl() seems to be more flexible since you can turn it on and off whenever you want (but who needs that?).
Multimedia applications would also benefit from this.
-- Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
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