On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Benno Senoner wrote:
>In this case I don't need raw I/O to get fast response or higher throughput,
>but only to avoid that the streaming apps do not monopolizes the buffer, which
>is very bad.
You probably don't want strict raw I/O, as there would be considerable benefit
in some sort of read-ahead buffering. What you want is an open/fcntl attribute
which would instruct the kernel that you don't intend to do a seek, in which
case it can free each buffer as soon as it has been fully read.
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