Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 11:36:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise(2) system call Message-ID: <201111021136.12629.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4EB08740.8010601@cran.org.uk> References: <201110281426.00013.jhb@freebsd.org> <201111011308.05204.jhb@freebsd.org> <4EB08740.8010601@cran.org.uk>
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On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 7:56:48 pm Bruce Cran wrote: > On 01/11/2011 17:08, John Baldwin wrote: > > I had found it via the web: http://linux.die.net/man/2/fadvise > > However, after further searching it appears to be stale (if you follow > > it's cross-reference to madvise(2), that page only has links to > > posix_fadvise() and not fadvise()). > > There's > http://www.speedware.com/HPe3000_resources/MPE_to_HP-UX_cross- reference/system_administration_cross-reference/cmd.html?cmdid=MS_1800 > for HP-UX ("*fadvise()* was derived by HP from the IEEE POSIX > 1003.1-2001 Standard"), though it also has posix_fadvise. Hmm, that one actually has an extra argument. I'll just go with posix_fadvise() for now. Interesting that HP lets you OR together two policies (so you can say both "I will access this file sequentially and with noreuse"). -- John Baldwin
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