[mythtv] [PATCH] O_STREAMING patch

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:26:51PM -0800, J. Donavan Stanley wrote:

> 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.

Later in the same thread, some suggestions are given for handling situations
like this:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0007.3/0625.html

Most of them are not directly applicable because you are dealing with a
kernel patch, and not a feature from a newer kernel.  The basic idea,
though, is to extract the bit that you actually need from the header and
bring it into your program's source tree.  That way you're creating a
minimum of mess to get the job done.

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 - mdz