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Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4's sys_readahead is borked
From: Robert Love <rml@ximian.com>
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On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:42 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Robert Love wrote:
>
> > Not really - I've been playing with it.  But OpenOffice just added it to
> > preload some of their libraries.  It should probably be deprecated and
> > remove in 2.7, since posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) does this same
> > thing.
> 
> In 2.4 also?

No, posix_fadvise() is only in 2.6.

So we deprecate readahead() in 2.7...

	Robert Love