How is this different from traditional devices ?
>> And even if there were, using the O_SYNC flag should tell the driver :
>> "Don't cache this , dude !" and there is no need for new device files.
>
>O_SYNC tells you "write this now" - it is 'write through' caching. The raw
>devices both read and write directly using the media.
/dev/cdrom does reads too directly using the media ( dunno for writes :-)
as I pointed out in my post.
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