[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Nov 13 11:36:21 UTC 2011


In message <20111113111338.GX50300 at deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov 
writes:

>Drivers can see the file offset and operate on them properly, but not at
>the lseek(2) time.

Right, that's what I meant:  The offset is not passed in as an
independent entity, only as a param of data movement.

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