Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:10:03 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: fadvise syscall? |
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Joel Becker wrote:
>Other applications can use this sort of stuff. DBM could, for >instance. So might GIMP. Etc. Dynamic hints have real world >applications. >
to be fair, fcntl(2) could be used in conjunction with open(2), to do dynamic hints.
I prefer to separate the hints from other O_xxx flags, though, so posix_fadvise seems to be applicable...
Jeff
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