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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Does our fadvise support len==0 ("I mean the whole file")? That's
>> defined in POSIX, and would allow a compliant app to simply
>> POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED once at the beginning.
>
>
> Well I'll be darned.
FWIW the specific language is "If len is zero, all data following offset
is specified."
(for others, you probably already have this somewhere)
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/posix_fadvise.html
top level SuSv3:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/toc.htm
Jeff
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