Re: [ILUG] Netscape Gripe

From: Paul Jakma (paul at domain clubi.ie)
Date: Mon 19 Apr 1999 - 18:55:30 IST


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Rob Hill wrote:

  Gach! I hate it!! at domain
  Netscape is currently taking up 48052k on my machine!!
  I've also noticed that it writes straight to the disk rather than
  waiting for the system sync which totally defeats the purpose of the
  whole thing,

don't think it's possible to write straight to disk. there's an
O_SYNC flag to open, but AFAIK it doesn't do anything. opening a file
in synchronous mode isn't implemented in linux. it's either sync the
complete device or wait for linux to write out dirty buffers.
  

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