"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This sounds OK as long as the O_NOATIME flag may be
> > added after an open(2)
> > via fcntl(2) - to preventfuture atime updates with
> > read(2). This is needed
> > in order to allow O_NOATIME to be useful for files
> > opened via fopen(3).
> >
>
> I'd like that too, but is it really necessary? Instead of inserting
>
> if ((fl=fcntl(fileno(mystream),F_GETFL,0)) != -1)
> fcntl(fileno(mystream),F_SETFL,fl|O_NOATIME);
>
> after the fopen(), couldn't one just replace the fopen()
> with an open()/fdopen() pair, where the open() used the desired flags?
Sometimes, a bigger long existing software structure may prevent this.
Jörg
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