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SubjectRe: O_DIRECT question
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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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