>posix_fadvise() looks to be a fine interface:
>
>We'll need to cheat a bit on the offset/len thing for NORMAL and
>SEQUENTIAL - just apply it to the whole file - we don't want to have to
>attach an arbitrary number of silly range objects to each file for this.
>(We already cheat a bit this way with msync).
>
yep
>Given this, I don't see a persuasive need to implement a non-standard
>interface. It takes an off_t, so posix_fadvise64() is also needed.
>
agreed WRT non-standard.
Are we required to have both foo and foo64 variants? If I had my
druthers, I would just do the foo64 version.
>
>A 2.4 implementation could be done any time. If anyone decides to
>do this, please let me know...
>
count me down as interested after my current project... If someone else
does it, more power to them...
Jeff
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