"Gordon Burditt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >I want to be able to read a HUGE file without having such a negative > >impact on the system's buffer cache. [snip] > Does O_DIRECT perhaps invoke some of the restrictions of "raw" > device files, where the current offset and transfer size must be a > multiple of some block size?
Very likely. It is also likely that the same applies to the destination (ie memory) address. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
