Re: fadvise syscall?

Joel Becker (jlbec@evilplan.org)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:20:26 +0000

On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 03:10:03AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> to be fair, fcntl(2) could be used in conjunction with open(2), to do
> dynamic hints.

I wasn't speaking to the exact interface, just to the real world
usefulness of hints after open(2). But yes, surely :-)

Joel

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