From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>,
VGER kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Subject: Re: posix_fadvise
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:56:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000414225624.A20940@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3aeiwcqn6.fsf@localhost.localnet>; from drepper@redhat.com on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:35:25PM -0700
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 02:35:25PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> Of course I would prefer if the option in the Linux kernel could do
> what POSIX says and simply add a new option for the current behaviour.
> But nobody listens to me anyway so why bother.
The current behaviour is consistent with a lot of other implementations,
and I've had very specific requests from application vendors that
Linux continue to behave the same way.
--Stephen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-04-14 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <m3snwofzo4.fsf@localhost.localnet>
2000-04-14 20:45 ` posix_fadvise Jamie Lokier
2000-04-14 20:56 ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
2000-04-14 21:24 ` posix_fadvise Jamie Lokier
2000-04-14 21:35 ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
2000-04-14 21:56 ` Stephen C. Tweedie [this message]
2000-04-15 2:49 ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
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