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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 17:52:00 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Bypassing disk buffers
Message-ID:  <20000502175159.D9246@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000502165517.A82222@sigbus.com>; from henrich@sigbus.com on Tue, May 02, 2000 at 04:55:17PM -0700
References:  <20000502165517.A82222@sigbus.com>

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* Charles Henrich <henrich@sigbus.com> [000502 17:26] wrote:
> In FreeBSD how do you bypass the kernel buffers for file I/O (can you?).  That
> is, when I read a file I want it coming directly off disk, not out of memory,
> even if I've just read it..

Afaik that's only possible with disk devices, not files themselves, you
can open a disk charater device and read from it.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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