Re: raw drive access for databases

Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)
Wed, 4 Nov 1998 12:20:52 +0200

CS> OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if someday there were an fcntl() that
CS> turned off buffering for a specific fd.

Or an option for open() like O_NOCACHE. In fact, fcntl() seems to be more
flexible since you can turn it on and off whenever you want (but who needs
that?).

Multimedia applications would also benefit from this.

-- 
Meelis Roos (mroos@tartu.cyber.ee)


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