[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

Peter Wemm <peter at wemm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim at kientzle.com>
> wrote:
> > ... seek(2) is badly broken on tape drives.
> > It does nothing and doesn't return an error ...
>
> Honestly, I think we've got bigger problems to worry about
> than whether lseek() works on magnetic tape drives ...

True, but failing silently -- doing nothing but not returning an
error -- is a POLA violation.  Those are worth fixing simply on
principle.