Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Jul 2003 19:39:29 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 'what to expect' |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > > One problem is O_DIRECT should return an error on open(2) or fcntl(2), > > not write(2). > > That is the 2.5 behaviour.
What do you mean?
The problem with db4 is that operations on O_DIRECT handles now return EINVAL if the address isn't suitable aligned, and db4 is not expecting that - it aborts. That was true for 2.5.74, at least.
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