Re: [patch] 2.4's sys_readahead is borked

From: Robert Love
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 13:49:02 EST


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:42 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:

> Robert Love wrote:
>
> > Not really - I've been playing with it. But OpenOffice just added it to
> > preload some of their libraries. It should probably be deprecated and
> > remove in 2.7, since posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_WILLNEED) does this same
> > thing.
>
> In 2.4 also?

No, posix_fadvise() is only in 2.6.

So we deprecate readahead() in 2.7...

Robert Love


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