Patch below. This was reported on the mailing list several months ago by Corrado Zoccolo: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-man/msg00961.html diff --git a/man2/readahead.2 b/man2/readahead.2 index 886b22a..a07bcbe 100644 --- a/man2/readahead.2 +++ b/man2/readahead.2 @@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ equal to .BR readahead () does not read beyond the end of the file. .BR readahead () -blocks until the specified data has been read. +is asynchronous and returns immediately. +The next system call reading from the file descriptor +will block until data is available. The current file offset of the open file referred to by .I fd is left unchanged. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
