On 3/3/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The tool uses an LD_PRELOAD hack to intercept glibc's read(), pread(),
write(), pwrite(), close() and dup2() functions.  pagecache control is done
via posix_fadvise() and sync_file_range().


How could this have any effect on the updatedb problem?  updatedb does
not read() anything, it just open()s and stat()s every file on the
disk.

Lee
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