Bug 197917 - pipe(7): 'Open file status flags' is missing O_DIRECT
Summary: pipe(7): 'Open file status flags' is missing O_DIRECT
Status: RESOLVED CODE_FIX
Alias: None
Product: Documentation
Classification: Unclassified
Component: man-pages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 normal
Assignee: documentation_man-pages@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2017-11-19 14:57 UTC by Martin H.
Modified: 2017-11-23 12:24 UTC (History)
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Description Martin H. 2017-11-19 14:57:53 UTC 
pipe(2) already documents this flag.
Since the following commit changes to O_DIRECT via fcntl are allowed too:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/fs/fcntl.c?id=0dbf5f20652108106cb822ad7662c786baaa03ff
Comment 1 Michael Kerrisk 2017-11-23 12:24:49 UTC 
I've added this sentence to pipe(2):

              Since Linux 4.5, it is possible to change the O_DIRECT set‐
              ting of a pipe file descriptor using fcntl(2).

I'll close this bug now. Please reopen if you think more work is needed.
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