>> Portability, or rather the complete lack of it. Stuff that
>isn't in the
>> Single Unix Spec is a hard sell.
>
>O_DIRECT is reasonably common among modern Unixen (it is supported by
>Linux, FreeBSD, and probably a couple of the commercial variants like
>AIX or IRIX); it should also be reasonably easy to check for
>support at
>configure time. It's on my TODO list to take a gander at
>adding support
>for O_DIRECT for WAL, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.
Let me know when you do, and if you need some pointers on the win32
parts of it :-) I'll happily leave the main changes alone.
//Magnus
