> > Btw., I just applied a patch which implements O_DIRECT, which will be > available in the next snapshot. The same restriction as on Linux > applies, which is, the buffers used in read/write operations must be > sector-aligned. Note that using O_DIRECT requires to rebuild the > application, so you'll be unable to experiment with this using the > current versions of dd(1).
I get the hint. coreutils-5.93-2 will be out as soon as I can rebuild it against a new snapshot. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin corerutils maintainer -- 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/
