From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
Cc: VGER kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Subject: Re: posix_fadvise
Date: 14 Apr 2000 13:56:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3itxkcsfd.fsf@localhost.localnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Jamie Lokier's message of "Fri, 14 Apr 2000 22:45:52 +0200"
Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
> Ok. You should be aware that the present Linux implementation of
> MADV_DONTNEED is "nukes dirty data". Do you have a POSIX standard that
> says POSIX MADV_DONTNEED should be similar to POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED?
Yes. But this shouldn't be a problem. Nobody says that nuking isn't OK.
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2000-04-14 20:45 ` posix_fadvise Jamie Lokier
2000-04-14 20:56 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2000-04-14 21:24 ` posix_fadvise Jamie Lokier
2000-04-14 21:35 ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
2000-04-14 21:56 ` posix_fadvise Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-15 2:49 ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
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