>> Portability, or rather the complete lack of it.  Stuff that 
>isn't in the
>> Single Unix Spec is a hard sell.
>
>O_DIRECT is reasonably common among modern Unixen (it is supported by 
>Linux, FreeBSD, and probably a couple of the commercial variants like 
>AIX or IRIX); it should also be reasonably easy to check for 
>support at 
>configure time. It's on my TODO list to take a gander at 
>adding support 
>for O_DIRECT for WAL, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

Let me know when you do, and if you need some pointers on the win32
parts of it :-) I'll happily leave the main changes alone.

//Magnus

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