Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:10:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:10:47 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:51982 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:10:38 -0500 Message-ID: <3C95A0DB.40008@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 03:10:03 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020214 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Becker CC: Anton Altaparmakov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: fadvise syscall? In-Reply-To: <3C945635.4050101@mandrakesoft.com> <3C945A5A.9673053F@zip.com.au> <3C945D7D.8040703@mandrakesoft.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020317131910.0522b490@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> <20020318080531.W4836@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joel Becker wrote: >Other applications can use this sort of stuff. DBM could, for >instance. So might GIMP. Etc. Dynamic hints have real world >applications. > to be fair, fcntl(2) could be used in conjunction with open(2), to do dynamic hints. I prefer to separate the hints from other O_xxx flags, though, so posix_fadvise seems to be applicable... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/