On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Bruno Diniz de Paula wrote: > Hi, > > has anyone used O_DIRECT flag of open to read files bypassing the buffer > cache of the kernel? I am trying to read using this option but the read > command always returns 0, indicating that zero bytes were read. The > buffer I am using is aligned with the block size, as also the size of > the buffer is multiple of the block size. What is the problem though? This just recently came up on LKML, and I think a solution/answer was given. Search their archives, I guess. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> http://ertius.org/
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