Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O

From: Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 13:08:44 EST


On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 06:42, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Sorry if this is a newbie question, but, does glibc pass flags blindly
> to the syscal ?? Ie, I do not need to rebuild glibc to use this in
> open(), fcntl() and so on, just I can make sure that bit 04000000
> is set in the flags.

Right. Do something like:

        #define O_STREAMING 04000000

        fd = open(file, ... | O_STREAMING);

or open it via fopen() and use fcntl() to set O_STREAMING.

        Robert Love

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