[mythtv] [PATCH] O_STREAMING patch

[J. Donavan Stanley]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 03:54:32PM -0600, Kevin Elliott wrote:
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>>On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:02:47PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
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>>>Such applications are buggy and we shall not imitate them.
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>>So you're telling me that most of the linux kernel modules are 
>>buggy and flawed by design? Perhaps you should send a note to
>>the linux kernel development team with this.
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>Nonsense.  You clearly don't know what you are talking about.  Perhaps
>you'll listen to Linus' opinion on the subject:
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>http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0587.html
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*sigh* The given commandline WAS buggy and not to be imitated.  And 
according to the link you provided NOT to be used at any rate quote "you 
should not use the kernel headers: you
should use the headers that glibc came with".  So that leaves out the 
symlink and the uname trick, AND my ifdef line.  Which pretty much 
leaves some sort of settings.pro setting to either define it to the real 
value or zero.

O_STREAMING could be a nice improvement for lots of areas, like CD/DVD 
ripping to keep them from trashing data that *should* be cached so I'd 
like to see support for it in some fashion.