Re: O_DIRECT question

[Xavier Bestel]

Le jeudi 11 janvier 2007 à 07:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds a écrit :
> > O_DIRECT is still crazily racy versus pagecache operations.
> 
> Yes. O_DIRECT is really fundamentally broken. There's just no way to fix 
> it sanely.

How about aliasing O_DIRECT to POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE (sortof) ?

	Xav


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