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Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> Michael Tokarev wrote:

>> But seriously - what about just disallowing non-O_DIRECT opens together
>> with O_DIRECT ones ?
>>
> Please do not create a new local DOS attack.
> I open some important file, say /etc/resolv.conf
> with O_DIRECT and just sit on the open handle.
> Now nobody else can open that file because
> it is "busy" with O_DIRECT ?

Suspend O_DIRECT access while non-O_DIRECT-fds are open, fdatasync on close?
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