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SubjectRe: MADV_SPACEAVAIL and MADV_FREE in pre2-3
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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