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Subject: Re: fadvise syscall?
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Joel Becker wrote:

>Other applications can use this sort of stuff.  DBM could, for
>instance.  So might GIMP.  Etc.  Dynamic hints have real world
>applications.
>

to be fair, fcntl(2) could be used in conjunction with open(2), to do 
dynamic hints.

I prefer to separate the hints from other O_xxx flags, though, so 
posix_fadvise seems to be applicable...

    Jeff