Re: VM Requirement Document - v0.0

[John Fremlin]

        Stefan Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]

> Windows NT/2000 has flags that can be for each CreateFile operation
> ("open" in Unix terms), for instance
> 
>   FILE_ATTRIBUTE_TEMPORARY
> 
>   FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH
>   FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING
>   FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS
>   FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN
> 
> If Linux does not have mechanism that would allow the signalling of
> specific use case, it might be helpful to implement such a hinting
> system?

madvise(2) does it on mappings IIRC

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