Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:58:58 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: MADV_SPACEAVAIL and MADV_FREE in pre2-3 |
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David S. Miller wrote: > pre2-3 defines MADV_SPACEAVAIL in asm-alpha/mman.h and MADV_FREE in > asm-sparc/mman.h.
> They are values provided by OSF and Solaris respectively. > > If this makes for a big issue wrt. glibc we could move them to > the OSF/Solaris emulation code on Alpha and Sparc but I think > this would be really silly and would like to not have to do this.
Besides, MADV_FREE would be quite useful. MADV_DONTNEED doesn't do the right thing for free(3) and similar things.
-- Jamie
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