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Subject: Re: [PATCH] O_STREAMING - flag for optimal streaming I/O
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
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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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