readahead(2) - Linux

[Mike Bristow]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
>> Ed Schouten wrote:
>>> * carlos neira <cneirabustos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> is there an equivalent of  readahead syscall in linux , for  freebsd ?.
>>>> i was looking at  http://preload.sourceforge.net/ ,  and it needs 
>>>> this .
>>> Maybe a mmap(), followed by a madvise()?
>>
>> Or an open() followed by a read() loop? :) If the goal is to preload the
>> files, this one is certainly going to do it :)
>>
>>
> 
> the aim is to load it into system memory but not copy anything into
> user memory.

sendfile(2) to /dev/null, perhaps.