Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:38:05 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] /dev/anon |
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Jeff Dike wrote:
> UML has a need to free dirty pages in the middle of a file (which is described > in more detail below). The obvious way to do this, and one which has come up > before, is a sys_punch system call for making a hole in the middle of a file.
Now I'm going to say something really stupid, but why sys_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) won't work for this?
- Davide
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