> 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".
THere is no problem because the OS will recover. I don't say it's an
optimal implementation but given that the name is used differently on
different OSes (at least the one without the POSIX_ prefix) people
will have to adjust themselves.
Of course I would prefer if the option in the Linux kernel could do
what POSIX says and simply add a new option for the current behaviour.
But nobody listens to me anyway so why bother.
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