[PATCH] fadvise(2) system call

[Doug Barton]

On 10/31/2011 12:03, Ed Schouten wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> * John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>, 20111031 15:24:
>> Existing applications use the name and I find it ugly.  (I also wish we
>> had a plain fallocate() instead of just posix_fallocate().)  However, if
>> other folks prefer not having the wrapper I could update it to use the
>> posix_* name.
> 
> I agree with Jilles. It's easier to introduce namespace pollution than
> it is to get rid of it afterwards. If the function is called
> posix_fadvise(), people should just use that.
> 
> People are constantly complaining about `Linuxisms' when they want to
> port software to FreeBSD. The word `BSDism' should remain an euphemism.
> ;-)

+1 to both points.  :)



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