On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:03 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Plus, common sense agrees with posix. An implementation of madvice
> that doesn't do anything should be perfectly sane and functionally
> equivalent to any other implementation. Only differences should be in
> performance.
>
> Dropping dirty pages is a clear functional difference.
I like the idea (I think someone suggested this early on) of renaming
the current MADV_DONTNEED to MADV_FREE and then adding a correct
MADV_DONTNEED.
And, as I said, the man page needs clarification.
Robert Love
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