Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:05:00 +0200 | From | Andries Brouwer <> | Subject | Re: open(.. O_DIRECT ..) difference in between Linux and FreeBSD .. |
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 06:09:09PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:58:14PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
[all clipped - later]
I was reminded of the following quote:
"The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances."
I'll add that to the BUGS section.
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