On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon <dil...@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
> Yes, it will work. Oops. I do see one problem though... if you do > this the underlying file object will be marked for sequential operation > even after the grep (in this case) exits. That is, an madvise() of > MADV_NORMAL, SEQUENTIAL, or RANDOM appears to have a permanent effect > on the object. This is probably not correct behavior. We could probably > fix this by moving this particular flag from the object to the vm_entry. In NetBSD, we store advice in the map entry, specifically because two different processes may wish to have different access patterns on the same object. Just a data point. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thor...@nas.nasa.gov> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message