Subject: Re: Is O_DIRECT useless on NetBSD?
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/22/2007 23:53:34
Pavel Cahyna wrote:
>>On Wed Nov 21 2007 at 16:08:59 +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
>>
>>>So am I right that currently there is no way for a program to say "I 
>>>will write some data to that file, and nobody is going to use it in the 
>>>next time, so please don't buffer it"?
> 
> Or posix_fadvise?

Nice idea, but ...

BUGS
      POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED, and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE
      are not implemented.

:(

Roland