readahead(2) - Linux

[Ivan Voras]

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 :)


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