Suggestion: rsync and direct IO

[Jos Backus]

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:39:53AM -0500, Green, Paul wrote:
> But is there an OS-independent way to set this attribute?  I haven't
> memorized the POSIX standard, but I don't recall seeing a way to set or get
> such an attribute.

Fyi: Solaris has directio(3C), FreeBSD has open(..., O_DIRECT).

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