Re: fadvise syscall?

[Jan Hudec]

> Followup to:  <[e-mail]>
> By author:    Anton Altaparmakov <[e-mail]>
> In newsgroup: linux.dev.fs.devel
> > 
> > Ok, so basically we want both fadvise() and open(2) semantics, with the 
> > open(2) being a superset of the fadvise() capabilities (some things no 
> > longer make sense to be specified once the file is open). They can of 
> > course both be calling the same common helpers inside the kernel...
> > 
> 
> If they're open() flags, they should probably be controlled with
> fcntl() rather than with a new system call.

Then posix_fadvise interface can be implemented in libc using fcntl.

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