Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: posix_fadvise

# Re: posix_fadvise

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:24:30 +0200

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Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 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.

You gave the definition as "the application does not need the data in
the near future". If it were ok to nuke the data, the definition would
say "the application does not need the data".

-- Jamie

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