Behavior of madvise(MADV_FREE)

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <E6A52D27-0D6A-4175-9ECA-ADE25BFF35C2 at xcllnt.net>, Marcel Moolenaar writes:

>BTW: MADV_DONTNEED in Linux seems to behave like MADV_FREE
>in FreeBSD -- at least according to the manpage. Which makes
>me wonder how standard madvise(2) is anyway.

"Not at all" is how much standard it is.

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