Re: posix_fadvise

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
14 Apr 2000 13:56:54 -0700


Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Ok. You should be aware that the present Linux implementation of
> MADV_DONTNEED is "nukes dirty data". Do you have a POSIX standard that
> says POSIX MADV_DONTNEED should be similar to POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED?

Yes. But this shouldn't be a problem. Nobody says that nuking isn't OK.

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