[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 2 18:05:01 UTC 2011


On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:56:48 pm Bruce Cran wrote:
> On 01/11/2011 17:08, John Baldwin wrote:
> > I had found it via the web: http://linux.die.net/man/2/fadvise 
> > However, after further searching it appears to be stale (if you follow 
> > it's cross-reference to madvise(2), that page only has links to 
> > posix_fadvise() and not fadvise()). 
> 
> There's 
> http://www.speedware.com/HPe3000_resources/MPE_to_HP-UX_cross-
reference/system_administration_cross-reference/cmd.html?cmdid=MS_1800 
> for HP-UX ("*fadvise()* was derived by HP from the IEEE POSIX 
> 1003.1-2001 Standard"), though it also has posix_fadvise.

Hmm, that one actually has an extra argument.  I'll just go with
posix_fadvise() for now.  Interesting that HP lets you OR together
two policies (so you can say both "I will access this file sequentially
and with noreuse").

-- 
John Baldwin


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