On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:21:50AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > [CC+=linux-api] > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Abhi Das <adas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also adds a void *opaque field to struct dir_context that can be > > used by filesystems to temporarily store any context as this > > struct gets passed around in the fs. So the prototype is: int dir_readahead(int fd, off64_t offset, unsigned int count); Why do we need a new syscall for this? $ man 2 readahead .... ssize_t readahead(int fd, off64_t offset, size_t count); .... EINVAL fd does not refer to a file type to which readahead() can be applied. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
