Another function from a recent POSIX standard which requires a kernel
implementation:
int posix_fadvise (int fd, off_t offset, size_t len, int advise)
This function works very similar to madvise (which has the name
posix_madvise in the standard) except that it works on a file and not
a mmap()ed region.
The standard defines the advises
#define POSIX_FADV_NORMAL 0 /* No further special treatment. */
#define POSIX_FADV_RANDOM 1 /* Expect random page references. */
#define POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL 2 /* Expect sequential page references. */
#define POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED 3 /* Will need these pages. */
#define POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED 4 /* Don't need these pages. */
#define POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE 5 /* Data will be accessed once. */
(I've reused the numbers already used for the MADV_* values and added
POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE at the end.)
With madvise already in place it should not be too hard to implement
this function.
I can provide more information to somebody who wants to give it a shot.
As far posix_fallocate, this function should implemented in the kernel
with a 64-bit offset (like pread/pwrite).
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