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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:33:07 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie.lokier@cern.ch>
Subject: Re: MADV_DONTNEED
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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > function 3 (could be MADV_ZERO):
> >   discard pages.  if they are referenced again, the process sees C-O-W 
> >   zeroed pages.

Fwiw, I don't think MADV_ZERO is particularly useful.
You can just read /dev/zero over that memory range.

-- Jamie
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