From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: posix_fadvise References: <20000414105811.B29138@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000414224552.A30555@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> <20000414232430.E30555@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper) Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 14 Apr 2000 14:35:25 -0700 In-Reply-To: Jamie Lokier's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:24:30 +0200" Message-ID: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Jamie Lokier Cc: VGER kernel list , linux-mm@kvack.org, Chuck Lever List-ID: Jamie Lokier writes: > 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. -- ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------ -- 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/