[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Nov 13 11:36:21 UTC 2011
In message <20111113111338.GX50300 at deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov
writes:
>Drivers can see the file offset and operate on them properly, but not at
>the lseek(2) time.
Right, that's what I meant: The offset is not passed in as an
independent entity, only as a param of data movement.
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