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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 15:31:27 +0100 (CET)
From: Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: fadvise syscall?
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> All of what you are asking for exists in Windows and all the semantics are
> implemented through a very powerful open(2) equivalent. I don't see why we
> shouldn't do the same. It makes more sense to me than inventing yet another
> system call...

It is easier for application writers to code:

[...]
#ifdef HAVE_FADVISE
	(void)fadvise(fd, FADV_STREAMING);
#endif
[...]

Than to have a forest of #ifdefs to determine which O_* flags are
supported. After all, we still want our programs to run under Solaris. :-)

   Simon

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