On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > pre2-3 defines MADV_SPACEAVAIL in asm-alpha/mman.h and MADV_FREE in
> > asm-sparc/mman.h.
>
> > They are values provided by OSF and Solaris respectively.
> >
> > If this makes for a big issue wrt. glibc we could move them to
> > the OSF/Solaris emulation code on Alpha and Sparc but I think
> > this would be really silly and would like to not have to do this.
>
> Besides, MADV_FREE would be quite useful. MADV_DONTNEED doesn't do the
> right thing for free(3) and similar things.
MADV_FREE could easily be a synonym for msync(MS_INVALIDATE). that would
be good for application portability.
what does MADV_SPACEAVAIL do?
- Chuck Lever
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