Does FreeBSD have replacement for posix_fadvice() or fcntl(F_RDADVISE)?

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Thu May 12 11:17:57 UTC 2011


On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 11:38:12AM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Freebsd-hackers.
> 
>    Does FreeBSD have some custom call, which can be used where Linux
>  programs uses posix_fadvice() and DARWIN ones fcntl(F_RDADVISE)?
> 
>    It is like madvise(2) but for file descriptors.
No, it does not (and I think the function is spelled posix_fadvise()).

mdf reserved the syscall slot for posix_fadvise in his recent work
on posix_fallocate(). Might be, he could comment more.
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