X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 11:30:33 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip Message-ID: <20051208103033.GA30538@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Dec 7 16:47, Loh, Joe wrote: > Thank you ... This will work. Any plans on supporting O_DIRECT flag in > open()? We believe this effectively gives unbuffered I/O. Please > correct if we are making the wrong assumption. Hey, cool idea! There's no definition of O_DIRECT in Cygwin so far, but this sounds like a worthwhile extension, at least for disk and tape devices, but maybe also for files. This won't be in the next Cygwin version 1.5.19, probably, but I'll certainly implement that for 1.5.20. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/