Re: fadvise syscall?

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:17:21 -0800


Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> ...
> >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.

That would be good. I can't see a reason why

#define posix_fadvise posix_fadvise64

would not suffice. That doesn't mean there isn't one :)

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