Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:20:54 -0800 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: MADV_SPACEAVAIL and MADV_FREE in pre2-3 |
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:38:47PM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > what does MADV_SPACEAVAIL do?
Snipped from the DU man page:
MADV_SPACEAVAIL Ensure that resources are reserved
[ENOSPC] The behav parameter specifies MADV_SPACEAVAIL and resources can not be reserved.
Not particularly verbose, and I presume it's only a point-check against overcommit, since another process could come along and gobble everything up.
r~
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