Proposal for adding O_DIRECT support into JDK 9

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Aug 14, 2017, at 2:32 PM, Markle, Seth <smarkle at amazon.com> wrote:

>>> Please let us know your comments and feedback. Thank you very much for your consideration!
> 
> Are there any plans to plumb this through to higher level classes built on top of FileChannel.  For example, will there be a way to open RandomAccessFile handles with O_DIRECT?

No. In any case, the java.io APIs such as RandomAccessFile are not built on top of the New I/O APIs (java.nio). The latter were introduced under JSR 51 [1] to complement and improve upon the pre-existing I/O classes in the java.io package.

Brian

[1] https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=51
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