From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:56:24 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: posix_fadvise Message-ID: <20000414225624.A20940@redhat.com> References: <20000414105811.B29138@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000414224552.A30555@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000414232430.E30555@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from drepper@redhat.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:35:25PM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Jamie Lokier , VGER kernel list , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chuck Lever List-ID: Hi, On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:35:25PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > 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. The current behaviour is consistent with a lot of other implementations, and I've had very specific requests from application vendors that Linux continue to behave the same way. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/