Re: man-pages-3.58 is released

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 04:17:52PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> pipe.2
>>     Michael Kerrisk
>>         Document the pipe2() O_DIRECT flag added in Linux 3.4
>
> Eww, reusing O_DIRECT for some totally different semantics is nasty.
> Did this go by linux-man back in the day?

(I suspect you meant linux-api@)

Nope. I happened to discover the new flag by accident while grepping
the sources.

Cheers,

Michael



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