Neil Conway wrote: > Also, I would imagine Win32 provides some means to inform the kernel > about your expected I/O pattern, but I haven't checked. Does anyone know > of any other relevant APIs?
See CreateFile, Parameter dwFlagsAndAttributes http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/createfile.asp There is FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING, FILE_FLAG_OPEN_NO_RECALL, FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS and even FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS Jan ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])