[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, October 31, 2011 6:16:27 pm Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> * John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, 20111031 22:17:
> > I also really do think that posix_*() truly is far uglier to read.  In the 
> > worst case, imagine something like this:
> > 
> > 	char *cp;
> > 
> > 	cp = posix_malloc(posix_strlen(some_string) + 1);
> > 	posix_strcpy(cp, s);
> > 	posix_printf("%s\n", cp);
> > 
> > *blech*
> 
> I do agree it's ugly, but at least it's standardized. The fact is that
> it's easier to explain to someone "this code doesn't build on $NONBSD,
> because $NONBSD lacks POSIX conformance" than saying "this code doesn't
> build on $NONBSD because it uses BSD-specific crap". As I mentioned
> previously, there is no fadvise() on Linux. There's no gain in
> compatibility by implementing it -- it's just syntactic sugar.

Hmmm, there is an fadvise(2) manpage.  I had presumed from that it was
a public interface.

-- 
John Baldwin