Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2007 20:16:09 -0500 | | From | "Lee Revell" <> | | Subject | Re: userspace pagecache management tool |
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On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > The tool uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to intercept glibc's read(), pread(), > write(), pwrite(), close() and dup2() functions. pagecache control is done > via posix_fadvise() and sync_file_range(). >
How could this have any effect on the updatedb problem? updatedb does not read() anything, it just open()s and stat()s every file on the disk.
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