On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 08:48:08AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
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> 
> wow, cool.
> 
>    this is safer than the loaning-for-read()/write() stuff, since applications
>    must explicitly ask for the new behaviour and the interface to do this is
>    fairly standard already.  the interface is just a new open/fcntl flag,
>    O_DIRECT, which is a hint that I/O done via this file descriptor be performed
> 
> 
> WRT implementation, is this irix-alike or solaris-alike?  ie, for irix
> it is a per-fd thing, but for solaris, it is a per-vnode thing (ie, 
> turing on O_DIRECT for a file does it for all users, not just this fd.)

I did it per-fd.  solaris doesn't have O_DIRECT as far as I can tell.

-Chuck