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mhamel_98@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> I guess the big question is, am I ok to use Direct_Io for this sort of
> operation?  It seems to me that the case of multiple readers is really
> not much more than one reader doing very random reads?  If anyone has
> specific information on the symptoms I'm seeing, I'd really appreciate
> it!

You must serialize all accesses to the same file object.

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Jeff Carter
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